Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/18/62 11:45

dnn wrote:

> Are currency codes such as USD, EUR, GBP, etc. to be put in an abbr or
> acronym tag?

No. See http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/abbr.html for an explanation
of the uselessness of abbr and acronym markup.

Technically, currency codes are neither acronyms nor abbreviations,
though they have originally been formed as abbreviations. But this is
irrelevant here.

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. The currency codes are meant to be used internally in
data processing systems as well as visibly in some international banking
business contexts etc., _not_ in normal text. If you think abbr or
acronym would help, this is an example of such markup being worse than
useless, since it pushes you into doing something wrong.

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