Andy Mabbett wrote:
My contention is that published amounts of money - such as those
listed as examples on the wiki, and others - often include a symbol,
that symbol may be obscure, or take the form of a letter which is
indistinguishable from other text. It may occur before, in the middle,
or following numbers.
Only by marking it up can we be sure that parsers know to remove it
when converting to an alternative currency.
The same applies to "value" in words (as in "five pounds" or "10 cents").
I looked again at some of the examples. It seems to me that if a "value"
or "amount" class name clearly separates the symbol, if any, from the
value, then parsing should be fine.
Moreover, it seemed to me that when the dollar symbol or cents symbol is
used, its meaning may more correctly be viewed as the unit of the
currency, instead of the symbol of the currency.
For instance, in "¢2.1 USD", the currency is "USD", and the unit is "¢",
but "¢" is not the symbol of currency "USD".
Guillaume
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