[uf-discuss] 'currency' microformat straw-man proposal.

[Stephen Paul Weber]

I definately vote picking one standard and sticking to it.  As with
date formats, this may cause problems (ie, on blogger I still can't
use proper hAtom), but this is the sort of thing that may be dealt
with LATER in a MATURE uF community (or at least a mature uF).
Parsers like only having one format to work with.  Let people display
what they will, the machine-readable should be consolidated.

On 9/21/06, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On 9/21/06 3:34 PM, "Guillaume Lebleu" <gl at brixlogic.com> wrote:
>
> > Looks like there are many others:
> >
> > There are various common abbreviations to distinguish the Canadian
> > dollar from others: while the ISO
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization>
> > currency code <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217> *CAD* (a
> > three-character code without monetary symbols
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign>) is common, no single
> > system is universally accepted. *C$* is recommended by the Canadian
> > government (e.g., per /The Canadian Style/ guide) and is used by the
> > International Monetary Fund
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund>, while
> > /Editing Canadian English/ indicates *Can$* and *CDN$*; both guides note
> > the ISO scheme/code. The abbreviation *CA$* is also used, e.g., in some
> > software packages.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_dollar
>
> Guillaume,
>
> This is excellent research on existing currency formats, could you add it to
> the currency-formats page?
>
>  http://microformats.org/wiki/currency-formats
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tantek
>
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