From: eflarup@yahoo.com
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 07:39:54 CDT
On Wed Sep 14 2005 - 18:11:04, Anto'nio
Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt) wrote:
>This including Euro countries, which have kept many
>older practices through the change over to the new
>currency unit (mostly unadvertedly) thus creating a
>strange situation: The same currency unit is used
with >different typographical conventions.
I don't consider that strange at all, that is exactly
what I would expect. When I write US dollar amounts in
Danish, I use the Danish notation that I use with
Danish krone amounts - 5.123,45 for instance (with a
currency name/symbol, of course). I would not expect
cultural standards such as decimal separators to
change simply because the currency gets a new name.
This would only happen if we were to create a new
locale (eu_EU) and force everybody in the euro zone to
adopt that.
Elsebeth
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