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I've never used Wise (or hardly heard about it), but I think their use of textual currency names under the balance numbers was ... odd. I mean, even as a North
by unwind 4y ago
I've never used Wise (or hardly heard about it), but I think their use of textual currency names under the balance numbers was ... odd.
I mean, even as a Northern European, I expect to see something like "£2163.00" for a balance in British Pounds, or (of course) "€4,718.16" for something in Euros. Obviously that would extend to "$4711.17" for something in US Dollars, too. I admire the clarity of spelling it out in full, at the same time as I'm uncomfortable about the missing symbol. Does that make sense?
Of course for my native Sweden, which is not in the Euro zone, it would be even more interesting the the name of the currency is (shocker) in Swedish, and the symbol too. Translating monetary values is non-trivial, basically. I guess if the app is in Swedish, I would expect the "4.711,17 kr" formatting (yes, we use thousands period and decimal comma) but if it were in English that would be "SEK 4,711.17".
- gitmaeker 4y agoThe thing is that many countries use the same symbol for their national currency (eg Australian, Canadian and Eastern Caribbean Dollars, just to name a few). Not all people are aware of what all currency symbols are (maybe except the popular $,€ and £, just look at your keyboard). What about ¥, ₤, ₩, ₫, etc.)?