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Dollar sign placement matters
- In Greece we put the currency symbol like in the image, after the numbers. But I think in many other countries they put it before the numbers🤔
  
  It's a standard for the Euro-zone.
  
  It is supposed to be read XXXX,XX€, because what is being stated is the amount and then the currency.
  
  I insisted in writing it in the opposite way and it was an accountant that corrected me.
  
  In the US, $ comes before a number, and ¢ comes after. It helps differentiate them at a glance. $1.50 or 75¢ You only use one symbol at a time.
  
  Not all that many uses for the ¢ left these days, I suppose.
  
  It's standard. Same goes for roubles.
- I put one here: $
  
  Excellent work.
- $100$
  
  Use them like quotes to cover all your bases.
  
  Like spanish question marks, it's good that you put the first $ upside down.
  
  $00100$
  
  Bases covered
  
  LaTeX: ok, I'll print out 100 in math mode. No problem
- By putting the dollar sign first on checks it prevents someone from changing 100$ into 1100$
  
  You could do the same if the dollar sign is on the other side though.
  
  $100
  
  $1000
  
  aren't they supposed to look at the fully written out
  
  "One hundred dollars 0/100" part of the check. Either way someone can slip in a 1 or a zero somewhere in the paper.
  
  I had to write a check a few months ago, it was like divining an ancient language.
  
  It cleared through, so I guess I got it right.
  
  1000
  
  Pretty sure the printing out of the amount with letters prevents that.
  
  One hundred dollars -------xx/00
- Just like commas.
  
  Let's eat out Grandma!
- Proper use of grouping separators (commas in some locales, dots/periods/full-stops in others, although there are some standards that specify spaces instead - which I personally find problematic) might've helped clear up the orientation issue as well.
  
  l10n is a bitch. The exceptions are almost as bad as timezones...
  
  The swiss use ' as a separator. So they would write 900'000 which upside down would look like 000,006 so the confusion could continue
  
  Where is ISO when we need it..
putting the currency after the amount just makes more sense. 100$ is 100 dollars. $100 is dollars 100.
- No it's dollar 1 and zeros
- But that's how you do it, isn't it?
  
  90.- CHF
  
  300.-€
  
  it’s how it’s done in most sane parts of the world. it’s not how it’s done in the US, and it trips me up every time

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