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

Hi David, 

David Nelson wrote:
> 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.

Is usage of the separator *mandatory* in every English-speaking country in the world?

There are lots of languages where we don't have a localized page - and we don't 
have localized banners at all.

So if there is a possibility to avoid the impression of a donation of just € 50 while using 
"right" English, I'd vote for it.

> > 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?

You never sound cynical - do you ?

It's a great pleasure to discuss with you - but I can add smileys too ;-)

I remembered the official text on the plural usage we discussed some time ago:
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication6336_en.pdf

There you can read: 
"The official abbreviation, according to ISO 4217, for 'euro' is 'EUR' in all languages."

But you're right, that the € sign has been introduced by the European Commission, so 
my comment proved wrong: It is the officially approved symbol for EUR.

So sorry for my misinterpretation - you can use € if you don't want/need to use the 
ISO code.

Best regards

Bernhard





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