The article was using the symbol for yen (¥ / ￥) as the currency symbol for CNY. Based on some research that I've been trying to undertake, this is an inaccurate symbol, even though the current Unicode standard would seem to indicate otherwise. Anyone know for certain what the accepted international standard is for the symbol? I've seen Y suggested in multiple sources, but I'd like confirmation. --Dante Alighieri 00:18 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Yeah, I was actually Googling about financial sites, and the only symbols I saw was the Japanese yen used in place of the Renminbi, sometimes distinguished by saying "RMB Y". In any case, "Y" and all its incarnations seem to be reserved for Yen, and despite RMB currency are counted in Y(uan) as well, it is left without special symbol. Taiwan also calls it currency New Taiwan Dollar "yuan" as well, and we always symbolize (when not using the Chinese character 元) as $, never Y. But internationally, I don't know how they are used, maybe $RMB or RMB$ --Menchi 00:27 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Here's a Simplified Chinese page (from the PRC) that says "RMB￥". --Menchi 00:30 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Well, that's as clear as mud. :) Oh well, I suppose we should just use the 元 symbol, since we can, and be done with it. While we're at it, should we be calling it CNY or RMB? --Dante Alighieri 00:59 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- Should we use the 元 character as the symbol? Because it's not really a symbol like $ or ¥ are. Again, I cannot speak for RMB, but for New Taiwan Dollar, if I remember correctly, in accounting and things like that, they just use $. I don't know who Taiwanese accountants disambiguate New Taiwan $ from US $, though.
- I don't think normal people use CNY....
- --Menchi 01:09 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
- I suppose we could just duck the whole issue by saying stuff like "12,543.34 yuan" instead of trying to throw a symbol in front of 12,543.34. It's not much different than saying "143,000 dollars" instead of "$143,000"....
- We probably shouldn't be deciding this on our own... :) It seems that we could use a Wikipedia-wide usage guide on currency symbols. There are lots of issues to discuss, like the proper way of labelling dollars as US dollars or other dollars, for example. I don't recall the format for naming those sorts of discussion pages though... I'll go look. Create a link here if you decide to create the page before I do. --Dante Alighieri 01:13 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)