I may be totally out in left field because I haven't really studied
up on the wiki as much as I should have but wouldn't something like
this make more sense in terms of a currency microformat:
<span class="money"><abbr class="currency" title="CAD eng">$</
abbr><span class="amount">5.00</span></span>
In this format the wrapping would be "money" or something similar
followed by either the actual "amount" or the "currency", depending
on what rules your country/language follows in regards to the order.
Since there can be a difference between different languages within
countries I thought it might be a good idea to include that in the
"currency" definition of the formating, eg., "CAD eng" or "CAD fr".
It could also give sites that list multiple languages a way to
differentiate when they show multiple prices.
So far on the examples sent to the list there has been no definition
around the actual dollar amount which confused me a bit. I'm curious,
is there a reason for that?
Feel free to let me know if I'm missing the point completely as I am
new to the world of microformats.
Cheers,
Mike Stickel
On Jul 18, 2006, at 1:34 AM, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
Hello,
Here's a handy list of ISO 4217 codes...
http://www.xe.com/iso4217.htm
Also, here's an example of the "$" being used in (Canadian) French...
https://secure.vmp.com/signup/adv_signup.php?locale=fr_CA
Note the placement of the dollar sign AFTER the number.
The same page in (USA) English can be seen here...
https://secure.vmp.com/signup/adv_signup.php?locale=en_US
(Just some example for the "examples in the wild".)
See ya
On 7/18/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
(Hopefully this will get to the mailing... haven't been able to get
through in a while. But we'll see)
I'm actually working on a globalization of currencies project right
now. (And have dealt with this issue in the past too.)
For us, each user of the system has a specified locale. (Like:
"en_US", "fr_CA", etc.) And with that locale, there is a default
currency associated with that.
In our system there's a PHP function that takes care of "printing"
money. All it really does is add the proper "currency symbol" and
puts
it in the correct place (for the local).
Although, internally, in the database, currencies info is stored in
ISO 4217 format.
First guess would be to use the abbr design pattenn for this --
http://microformats.org/wiki/abbr-design-pattern
Maybe something like...
Pay me <abbr class="currency" title="CAD">$</abbr>5.00 now!
Although something like the the following might be better...
Pay me <span class="money"><abbr class="currency"
title="CAD">$</abbr>5.00</span> now!
But it might be more semantic salt than is considered necessary.
Just
having the abbr with the class-currency near a number might be good
enough. But that's open for discussion though.
Thoughts?
Some other things to consider... there might be an implicit currency
that comes with what's defined in the HTML "lang" attribute. Like if
you have lang="fr-CA" than you could assume the currency is CAD.
(But
that takes some intelligence to do that kind of mapping.)
(Also, I know this is bad. But I don't think we are consistently
using the "lang" attribute in our system.)
Also, this is all just my experience. It would be useful to see what
others are doing too.
See ya
On 7/17/06, Ben Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A recent discussion with a travelling friend has sparked some ideas
> about a microformat for displaying prices and other currency-based
> figures.
>
> The classic problem example would be a page stating a price of
"$50".
> Is that Australian dollars? US dollars? Monopoly money? :)
>
> So anyway I'm following The Process
> (http://microformats.org/wiki/process) and I'm up to searching for
> existing formats/work. So far I've only seen the ISO standard for
> three-letter codes, no format or microformat for consistently
> displaying them.
>
> Does anyone know of relevant resources I should check out?
>
> cheers,
>
> Ben
Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
Mike Stickel
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