Michael Everson wrote:
>
> At 00:53 -0500 2002-02-28, Tex Texin wrote:
> >I believe Portuguese Escudos are done this way, with the $ as decimal
> >separator.
>
> Portuguese escudos no longer exist.
>
> Apple's pre-euro formatting for Portugal gives 1 234,56$ with space
> as the thousands separator and dollar sign as a currency sign.
>
> A document from TC304 gives 1.234$56 Esc. with full stop as the
> thousands separator, dollar sign as a decimal separator, and currency
> marked with the word.
My understanding is that there are no firm rules for formatting currency
in euros and that it is expected that the formats or practices used
prior to the change to euros would continue with the euro symbol
repacing the old currency. So I guess I should have said that the
formatting of the euros in Portugal would be (expected to be) as above
with escudos replaced with euros.
I would be glad to learn any information about what is really occuring
in practice in each of the euro-using countries with regards to
formatting the currency.
With respect to references on currency practices, I find a lot of
discrepancies among the docs from the various vendors etc, so I never
know who to believe. It's a shame that the various sources for these
kinds of information (currency, date, address, etc.) (and myself
included) tend to give single answers as if there were only one choice.
Reality is usually that there is a range of choices. I haven't seen the
TC304 doc so I am not commenting on that.
I am not a member of the typo list so if this is of interest to them it
will need to be forwarded by a member.
tex
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