• Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
    185·
    1 month ago

    Have we just given up on putting the currency symbol in the correct place?

    (I know some currencies have the symbol after it, but I’m not aware of any dollar currencies that work that way)

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      15·
      1 month ago

      Putting the currency symbol after always made more sense to me. It’s how every other unit of measurement works, why should currency be different?

      • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
        10·
        1 month ago

        afaik it’s on the left to stop people adding in more numbers on cheques.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
      51·
      1 month ago

      Correct is whatever next generation of society adapts. It’s 10 dollars not dollars 10. I personally don’t care, I just don’t see the problem

    • lengau@midwest.social
      41·
      1 month ago

      Just the other day I was thinking we should use the currency symbol as the decimal marker. So something could cost 9$99