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Posted by nice.guy.nige on 01/23/36 11:45
While the city slept, Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi) feverishly
typed...
> dnn wrote:
>
>> Are currency codes such as USD, EUR, GBP, etc. to be put in an abbr
>> or acronym tag?
>
[...]
> Technically, currency codes are neither acronyms nor abbreviations,
> though they have originally been formed as abbreviations. But this is
> irrelevant here.
From the Merriam-Webster definition for "Abbreviation": "a shortened form of
a written word or phrase used in place of the whole "
(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abbreviation), so how would you
class "USD" (a shorterned form of the phrase "United States Dollars") as not
an abbreviation???
> If you use the codes, explain them in normal page content, preferably
> _before_ use. Better still, don't use them but use names or, in some
> cases, symbols like $, , and £, if all readers can be expected to
> recognize them
[...]
This will work as long as the GBP symbol doesn't appear as a #, as it so
often does in places other than here (the UK).
I do agree though that it may be preferable to simply make a note along the
lines of "All prices quoted are in UK Pounds Sterling" (or whatever) -
especially if there are going to be many prices on one page, as then the
scattering of "USD"s or "GBP"s all over the page would not look good (and
I'm sure wouldn't sound good either!)
Cheers,
Nige
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