European currency display format - is this right?

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Hi all,

Am I right in saying that the majority of Europe uses the decimal place to seperate Euro's and cents (is "cents" correct?)?

So: €10.99 is ten Euros and 99 cents


...but those countrys that DO use a comma to sepeate:

So: €10,99 is ten Euros and 99 cents

...will still recognise the decimal place for what it is?


Is that right?

cheers
Sam
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  • Sam,

    They might still be confused

    In Turkey

    10,00€ is ten euro and 99 cents (euro sign after the amount)

    When they see

    €10.00 they sometimes think a zero is missing (10.000 = ten thousand)

    American date formats also confuse them.

    Found this thread

    Currency problem using comma as decimal point (shop in europe) - Zen Cart Support

    Martin


    P.S. Officially the plural of "euro" is "euro".
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    • In Sweden both . and , would be considered decimal separators but the official is comma. We use space to separate thousands.
      An amount in euro would be €1 234,56 and in Swedish currency (SEK): 1 234,45 kr
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  • Thanks Martin!

    I guess it'll probably be safer just to leave the cents off the end anyway.

    And thanks for the correction on plural "Euro"!

    cheers
    Sam
  • Thanks Windfinder, much appreciated!

    cheers
    Sam
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