I want to vote on the poll but can you clarify what certain options mean
exactly, maybe by hypothetical examples (quoted parts are what confuse me)?
* Currency symbol identification "from other part of the text"
* "Global" currency definition
* Amount identification "from other part of the tex
Mike Schinkel wrote:
* Currency symbol identification "from other part of the text"
This means that in "$25 dollars", we would mark up "$" as the currency
symbol. See
http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-brainstorming#Andy_Mabbett under
symbol bullet for an explanation of this.
* "Global"
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> * Currency symbol identification "from other part of
Mike Schinkel wrote:
This is a naïve question: Doesn't the ISO 4217 code *imply* a symbol? It
appears so here: http://www.xe.com/symbols.htm Doesn't including this in
the microformat create redundancy?
Alternately, can't the symbols be extracted as not being alphanumeric
characters?
I tend
In my previous table example, you should read:
price
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. I added my vote to your poll, but only selected three of eight thinking
the rest shouldn't be included.
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Mike Schinkel wrote:
Thanks for the clarification.
Further questions (and forgive me if I missed any of this before I joined):
Currency symbol identification
This is a naïve question: Doesn't the ISO 4217 code *imply* a symbol? It
appears so here: http://www.xe.com/symbols.htm Doesn't incl
parser. Better to have just one way
until desired functionality requires multiple ways.
-Mike
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Lachlan Hunt wrote:
For a program to do so, it would have to be aware of every single
alphanumeric character in Unicode. That does not just include
[A-Za-z0-9]. It might be easier to do the reverse and know of
every character that isn't a known currency symbol, but then ev
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>Alternately, can't the symbols be extracted as not being alphanumeric
>characters?
Consider (for example):
The £ was worth 2.50 dollars
or:
£1 was worth 2.50 dollars
>The
>currency proposal at
>http://mi
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>It's easy to get confused about what 'fn' means, since it could easily
>stand for family name, though it doesn't. (I'm not exactly sure what
>it stands for, though I assume it means "formatted name" even though
>it's not exp
be possible to
support *both* a long name and an abbreviation. If I misunderstood, sorry
for my missing the point.
-Mike
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get it right, we would have been put off implementing it for a good long
while if ever. JMTCW.
-Mike
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>>>£1 was worth 2.50 dollars
>
>Those are edge cases which require additional complexity. I'm
>advocating that edge cases, which are certainly in the 20 percentile or
>less have the complexity whereas the more common
idea.
-Mike
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