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Jay:
> in a week or two, e-gold will be supporting
> Euro as a currency unit that spends can be denominated in.
Great, finally!
> any
> programmers that want to get a heads up will be interested to know
> that the numeric value for euro in the e-gold SCI/APIs will be 85.
Aside from that, their representation in the emails sent by the SCI would
be interesting. After all, the SCI now uses the string "US$" to describe USD
in the "Payment Amount" field, so it's not clear what code you will use for
Euro. The informal spelling will be "Euro" by the way, like "US$" for dollars.
> (other
> currencies tied to the euro will be available at that time also - they
> are:
> BEF 86, ATS 87, GRD 88, ESP 89, IEP 90, ITL 91, LUF 92, NLG 93, PTE 94,
> FIM 95.
This is strange -- actually, it's even a bad idea.
These currencies cease to exist in a short time!
Lookup the timetable of the European Central Bank to figure out when.
For example,
http://www.euro.ecb.int/en/section1/timetable.NL.html
says, Jan 27, 2002 is the ending date of NLG as legal tender.
I would find an introduction of these "temporary" currencies awkward.
As I explained before, this is not like the American changeover to a new
dollar, where there's now two parallel forms of legal tender [heheh, and
just imagine, the whole reason for new bills was to make a more secure dollar].
This is a total changeover of participating national currencies to Euro.
That also means that you should drop support of DEM at the timetable-date
if you want to do the Euro thing right.
Hope this helps,
Rick van Rein.
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