Ecuador Number & Currency Formats
John Howell
Thank you to for the responses on this issue. Is there is an
inconsistency between Frederick J. Bealle's response, and the response
from Edgar Sanches regarding the issue of alternating separators in
Ecuador?? A software developer in Equador (Technologia Avanzada del
Ecuador - T.A.D.E.) believes the alternating currency separator is a
legal requirement for currency amounts printed on checks (cheques). I
would especially like to hear more from Edgar Sanches regarding the
belief held by T.A.D.E.
Thanks,
John S. Howell, Jr.
how...@hodgkin.med.upenn.edu
ORIGINAL QUESTION:
"We have been told that in certain countries the millions separator
is different from the thousands separator, and that the separators
alternate as you go further left -- has anyone else run across this ?
e.g. 1.000'000.000,00 is the format to write one thousand
million, with two zeroes to the right of the decimal place in
Ecuador -- (decimal separator =comma ","; thousands
separator= period "."; millions separator= single quote"'";
thousand million (US Billion)separator=".")"
RESPONSES (EDITED):
Sender: Frederick J. Bealle (BEA...@TOROLAB6.VNET.IBM.COM)
NL Technical Centre, IBM Canada Lab
The suggested input for Ecuador sounds bizarre......, Ecuador would use
a period as numeric and currency thousands separators (the Spanish
influence). I have never seen alternating thousands separators.
Perhaps what was meant was alternate, or substitute, separators.
Sender: Edgar Sanchez <esan...@mmrree.gov.ec>
Direccion General de Informatica
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
Quito, Ecuador - Sudamerica
Out of curiosity, how come do you know so much about little Ecuador's
currency formats?
Seriously, as many devices (e.g. accountant calculators) use periods to
separate decimals, many people is used to the US format. Even more, as
the keyboards have the comma in the wrong places, to key a comma instead
of a period would be a hassle for a fast typing accountant. And
definetively,the thousands and millions separators look nice but you
don't want to type them (must appear automatically).