Hi David, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 19:22, Bernhard Dippold > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> By the way, could you Design guys please maybe fix the banner? A sum > >> of money expressed in English with the euro sign should be formatted > >> exactly like this: €50,000 > > > >> (Notice the comma separator for the thousands, and the prefixed euro > >> symbol. The point/dot/period is a *decimal separator*.) > > > > As the comma separator shows the same problems in other parts of the world > > as the point in your understanding, we should avoid both on the > > international > > site. 50 000 is easy to recognize by everybody. > > My 2 cents would be that since the language being used in the banner > is English, it would be a good idea to conform to *English* > conventions. The comma separator for thousands and the > point/period/dot for the decimal separator is the convention in every > English-speaking country in the world.
Is usage of the separator *mandatory* in every English-speaking country in the world? There are lots of languages where we don't have a localized page - and we don't have localized banners at all. So if there is a possibility to avoid the impression of a donation of just € 50 while using "right" English, I'd vote for it. > > > And the Euro sign "€" is not the officially approved currency symbol by the > > European Union and might be not understood / wrongly formatted in other > > parts > > of the world. Therefore I prefer "EUR". > > Read this, Bernhard: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign > > Or maybe the European Commission is not really worthy of serious > consideration? You never sound cynical - do you ? It's a great pleasure to discuss with you - but I can add smileys too ;-) I remembered the official text on the plural usage we discussed some time ago: http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication6336_en.pdf There you can read: "The official abbreviation, according to ISO 4217, for 'euro' is 'EUR' in all languages." But you're right, that the € sign has been introduced by the European Commission, so my comment proved wrong: It is the officially approved symbol for EUR. So sorry for my misinterpretation - you can use € if you don't want/need to use the ISO code. Best regards Bernhard -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
