At 05:44 PM 2/28/02 +0000, Michael Everson wrote:
>At 12:37 -0500 2002-02-28, Tex Texin wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>This is also my understanding.
>
>>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.
>
>So would I, so I can update my page at
>http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/format.html
it's
http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/formats.html
In the file the line for Greece has incorrect UTF-8 in it.
<tr><td>Greece</td><td>€1.234,56</td><td>d?. 1.234,56 or [?]
1.234,56</td></tr>
note the single byte >128 shown as ? inside the []
Also, in the opening lines, since you are not a standards organization, you
might want to reports on conventions that 'are' observed rather than
'should be' observed.
A./
>Currently that page gives the information I could glean from Apple's
>locales and then replacing the old currency with the euro sign. It has
>been pointed out to me that I need to put in a disclaimer so people don't
>think it's more standard than it is.
>--
>Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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