Hello David, Just out of curiosity, was this inside or outside of Canada?
On 9/21/06, David Janes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'll just jump in here: I've worked in finance, treasury, risk management and banking for the last 10 years. I've only seen CAD used technically to refer to Canadian dollars and anyone, from a banking/finance _technical_ perspective, is probably mostly interested in consuming that form of currency information. Regards, etc... David On 9/21/06, Charles Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On 9/21/06, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Charles > > Iliya Krempeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > > > > >What I'm arguing is that... we should throw an iso4127 class name in > > >there too so that other currency codes (besides ISO 4127) could be > > >used too without (potentially) breaking this or other Semantic HTML > > >systems (that either exist now or will exist in the future) for > > >marking up currency. > > > > What currency code uses "CDN" for Canadian dollars - or we going to have > > people inventing their own currency codes, too? > > Well... I use "CDN". (I'm Canadian BTW.) Until I read the ISO 4127 > spec, I don't think I've noticed "CAD" being used. But I've seen > "CDN" all over the place. > > Even at the currency exchage stores (that I've been to) I believe they > use "CDN". > > It's a defacto standard. (Just because ISO doesn't give "CDN" its > blessing and tells people to use "CAD" doesn't mean people will.) > > As far as people inventing their own currency codes.... an > organization like ISO or ANSI creating standards codes is really no > different from any group doing it. They are just groups of people. > > After all... if you want to exclude one group... the W3C might say > that we here at Microformats.org should not be allowed to create web > standards. (We basically say f*** you. We don't need your blessing.) > > > Why not make the standard we are creating be extensible (by making the > type of currency code being used be marked explicitly... with the > iso4127 class in our case)? > > That way it will be useful to more people. (That way it will be > useful to people who aren't using ISO 4127 cods.) And thus this > Microformat will have a better chance of being used. (Also, it can > make it so that different groups won't have conflicting ways of > marking up currency. And we won't get a big mess.) > > > So... I'm NOT saying that we should NOT use ISO 4127 codes. (I > actually think we should use them.) I'm just saying that we should > mark that we are using ISO 4127 codes (via a iso4127 class) so that > people can use other currency codes too (and not have a bid confused > mess). > > > See ya
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