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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..

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