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
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
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