• dont_lemmee_down@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    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
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      21 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:-”…

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        15 hours 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. :-)

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        14 hours 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