2008/11/4 Andrew Cates <Andrew(a)soschildren.org>rg>:
> Come on,
every bank statement of yours will tell you the ISO code of
> the currency your account is in, you will probably find it on every
> magazine that you read and so on and so on. Please don't tell me that
> this is such an academic thing...
This is completely untrue in England too. I have two bank accounts
with two different large high street banks and have just spent five
minutes looking at statements from them both. There is definitely no
ISO code. I have also tried two newspapers, a utility bill, half a
dozen invoices and I am none the wiser. If I was given an hour to find
it offline I think I would fail (and I still have no clue what it is).
I guess Google or Wikipedia would work but I have never heard of an
ISO code for currency even though I have traveled to 48 countries etc
etc...
I have to concur - I've just discovered that my bank statement, quite
remarkably, doesn't even have the word "pounds" on it, much less a
code or the £ symbol. (I hope they haven't redenominated it in ZWD
when I wasn't looking)
It's intuitive when you see the code written down; I would be
comfortable guessing that most people would look at 57.43 GBP and
recognise it as "£57.43". But it's intuitive to go from the code to
the currency but not the other way around. In the case of the UK, I
suspect most people would look at U-- and then B-- before ending up at
G--...
This is a particularly confusing case for the UK, though! Most
countries have it a lot simpler.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk