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
