Re: Euro currency sign

On Oct 26,  8:28pm, Peter Flynn wrote:
> Subject: Re: Euro currency sign

>    Ah, so you (and several others) have been discussing date representation
>    in machine-readable protocol specification, while I and several othrs were
>    talking about dates in human-readable text, hence the confusion.
>
> The point about using markup is surely that I can use <date
> value="2004-02-03" calendar="whatever">3. Feber 1997</date> in my
> Austrian Web pages and it can still be found by anyone searching for
> events happening that day (or whatever the application is), and given
> a target language and locale, any conversion process can trivially
> localize the dates as part of the automation of translation (whenever
> that arrives).

Yes, exactly, and your example shows very well the applicability of the
human-readable and machine-readable forms.



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Received on Monday, 27 October 1997 09:09:24 UTC