>>>>>What is the proper use of a dollar sign in a price display? In English, should we put it at the end or at the beginning? Also, what about French?
>>>>
>>>>The general rule seems to be to display it in the way it would be used in the native country.
>>>>So U.S. dollars would be $1,000,000 ; Euros 1,000,000€ UK Sterling £1,000,000 etc regardless of context in which they are being used....
>>>>
>>>>Or use the other convention 1,000,000USD , 1,000,000EUR, 1,000,000GBP etc ?
>>>
>>>I think that the € should precede the amount like the dollar and the sterling, although that varies per country
>>>
>>>see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign under Usage
>>
>>Maybe the Euro wasn't a good choice for an example :-}
>>Certainly most of the EU countries place it after the amount.
>>IIRC Germany used to use Dm100 etc for the Deutchemark but now uses a suffixed euro sign ?
>
>As I said, the letter abbreviation can be put either before or after
>see table in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_issues_concerning_the_euro Welsh is mentioned as well
>Germany and Austria are different

I thought for a moment that it was going to mention a Welsh currency. If there was one it would be the SHEEP :-}

>
>>What do they do in Belguim ?
>
>Should be before the amount but most show prices with the sign after the amount 123.45 €
>I always use EUR as my keyboard doen't have a € sign (copied and pasted yours - thank you)
Your welcome! (Don't have a euro key either BTW - since it's HTML I just used

€

)

>It is more language related than country related - see link of Al - English canada put the sign in front where French put it after
>
>
>So either prefix or postfix - luckily there's no infix notation ...

France used to with the Franc ? 3F50 etc ?

>
>>Wkipedia contradicts itself here :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign
>>"The standardized European default placement, used in absence of a national standard, is that (€) is placed before the amount"
>>Anyway who are the americans to dictate where we put our currency symbols (g,d & r)
>>
>>>If you use EUR/GBP/USD I've always heard that you can put the currency before or after the amount
>>>
>>>USD 1,000.00
>>>1,000.00 USD
>>
>>I think we should abandon this discussion and accept the ruling of the ultimate authority
>>(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688126.aspx)
>>ie. use .NET CultureInfo and GetCurrencyFormat() :-}