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

    • @[email protected]
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      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!
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        320 hours ago

        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
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          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]
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          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

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

      • @[email protected]
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        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.