Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: [libreoffice-website] Euro-formatting on banner [was: Challenge site damaged]

Hi, :-)

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 19:22, Bernhard Dippold
<bernhard@familie-dippold.at> wrote:
> > By the way, could you Design guys please maybe fix the banner? A sum
> > of money expressed in English with the euro sign should be formatted
> > exactly like this: €50,000
>
> > (Notice the comma separator for the thousands, and the prefixed euro
> > symbol. The point/dot/period is a *decimal separator*.)
>
> As the comma separator shows the same problems in other parts of the world
> as the point in your understanding, we should avoid both on the international
> site. 50 000 is easy to recognize by everybody.

My 2 cents would be that since the language being used in the banner
is English, it would be a good idea to conform to *English*
conventions. The comma separator for thousands and the
point/period/dot for the decimal separator is the convention in every
English-speaking country in the world.

> And the Euro sign "€" is not the officially approved currency symbol by the
> European Union and might be not understood / wrongly formatted in other parts
> of the world. Therefore I prefer "EUR".

Read this, Bernhard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign

Or maybe the European Commission is not really worthy of serious consideration?

Me, I prefer the universally-recognized euro symbol. You see it in
every bureau de change of every country throughout the world - is that
universal enough for you?

David Nelson

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