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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The actual standard for English language (as well as Irish, Maltese and Dutch) is € first: https://style-guide.europa.eu/en/content/-/isg/topic?identifier=7.3.3-rules-for-expressing-monetary-units

For all other languages it's value first.

Luckily no one remembered to put it in the middle yet, which I assume is only because 50€10 looks cursed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Luckily no one remembered to put it in the middle yet, which I assume is only because 50€10 looks cursed.

Exceptionally, the symbol for the Cape Verdean escudo (like the Portuguese escudo, to which it was formerly pegged) is placed in the decimal separator position, as in 2$50.

From Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Those lucky bastards are the only ones that get to use this handy feature in Dream Berd

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

sweden does something similarly weird. we don't have a currency symbol (unless you count "kr") so the standard way to write a price is "20:-", which used to be "20kr, 0öre", with the colon as the decimal separator and the line added so you couldn't write in another value, but then we switched decimal separator for currency to "," and ":-" just became the symbol for "money".

you even occasionally see abominations like "19,90:-"...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's interesting that you have :- as the symbol for money. Where I'm from :- is the symbol for forgetting to give your ASCII smiley a mouth. :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We also sometimes use ,- effectively as a symbol for money. I assume it has same origin, would be used as 19,90 ,- too.

Thouhg I think you'd only use it on handwritten stuff, didn't see it in the wild for a long time now that I think about it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm going to risk it is tied to the previous standard and has faced resistance to fade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To a large extent yes. The only exception I know is, like @[email protected] mentioned, Portugal that used the 100$00 format and now uses the 0,5€ format - which is still the closest to the previous standard without looking horrible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I think the French write 1€50 iirc. At least I think I've seen it at their gas stations? Does indeed look bad.