Despite
the Euro
is over SEVEN
years old, it STILL
hasn't a STANDARD
SYMBOL
for "cents"!
While
the dollar has a symbol
for cents from beginnig [
¢
] the euro still
has only a standard symbol for the currency [ € or
EUR
] but not a
symbol for the eurocents!
Now,
it is suggested to use the
diction "cent",
but
very different names are used in the wild by companies,
shops, mewspapers, etc. [ like: "eurocents" "cents
Euro",
"€
cent",
etc. ] all
names much bigger
and longer
than the Euro currency symbol and (worse)
they're all
non-standard!
It
looks really incredible
that the European
Community
(that usually loves
to standardize everything,
including the dimensions
of Banana and Zucchini!)
has never
standardized
(and still
hasn't) the symbol
of the cents of its currency!!!
Seven
years ago
on this
website I've already
proposed a POLL
to give a standard name or symbol to the eurocents,
then sent hundreds
email
to banks, newspapers, etc. but, unfortunately, my
proposal hasn't
had
any media coverage nor any success in 2002.
So,
I've decided to propose
again
the same poll,
to help the people, banks and governments
to (finally!)
make the choice for a standard
symbol
for eurocents, perhaps, not an "official
standard"
but, at least, a "de-facto
standard"
that everybody could adopt.
Of
course, the symbol must use only
characters of the standard
keyboard to avoid the need to change
all existing keyboards
with a new
version!
Also,
we should
not use
the dollar cents symbol alone
to avoid confusions between these currencies,
so, the
symbols suggested in this poll are:
[
e¢ ]
[
ec ]
[
:¢ ]
[
:c ]
[
Ç ]
[
€¢ ]
[
e© ]
[
ëc ]
[
other... ]
I've
changed
the
online poll system since the former system
not
working
well with some browsers, while, the new
system, works well with Opera and Firefox,
but seems have problems to be displayed
with Internet Explorer.
You
can use
and talk
about
this idea and the poll completely FREE
on TV magazines, newspapers, websites,
forums, blogs, etc. just
acknowledging
the author
of the proposal of a standard symbol
and the source
of the poll:
http://www.gaetanomarano.it/eurodesktop/eurodesktop.html
However,
your buying
of an advertising space on my website
is appreciated.
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