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You'd think someone involved in e-commerce would at least know that the dollar sign goes before the number and the percentage sign after.
by danellis 8y ago
You'd think someone involved in e-commerce would at least know that the dollar sign goes before the number and the percentage sign after.
- mavhc 8y agoI assumed from the mistakes in English that they're not native speakers. Wonder if they actually live in USA
- klohto 8y agoAuthor is not from USA. It’s common everywhere except for ‘murica to put currency sign after the amount...
- the-dude 8y agoNot true at all.
- vsl 8y agoNope. And it’s not common to put % in front at all either. This quirk identifies the author as having as their first language Arabic, perhaps Persian (where both styles are mixed), or Turkish (that one surprised me - RTL origin didn’t): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_sign https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_sign
- danellis 8y agoI can't think of anywhere it's common to put the dollar sign after. They put the Euro sign after in some European countries. Nowhere puts the percentage sign first. The author is in the US, though.