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[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 65 points 7 months ago (25 children)

In Greece we put the currency symbol like in the image, after the numbers. But I think in many other countries they put it before the numbers🤔

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 55 points 7 months ago (20 children)

It's a standard for the Euro-zone.

It is supposed to be read XXXX,XX€, because what is being stated is the amount and then the currency.

I insisted in writing it in the opposite way and it was an accountant that corrected me.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 7 months ago (8 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.

[–] dont_lemmee_down@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months 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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 7 months 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:-"...

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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. :-)

[–] illi@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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

[–] TwitchingCheese@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

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

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