On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:50:28 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
And I know there are currencies other than USD. What I meant is, are there currencies other than USD, JPY, EUR, and CAN? If not, why? Having CAN among the four seems a bit strange to me if not Anglocentric - we have two for primarily English-speaking countries, but none for example for Chinese-speaking countries (ie, Yuan Renminbi, Singapore dollar, New Taiwanese Dollar, Malaysia dollar, etc), given that zh.wikipedia is currently the fastest-growing on the growth curve of all the larger Wikipedias (ie, it may be growing slower than en and de currently are, but it is growing faster than they were when they were at a similar period) and has 20k articles (most of the other top Wikipedias are languages spoken primarily in Euro countries)
This is an issue of the hard realities of international banking, and not of political correctness.
Also, the yuan/RMB of the PRC is not a fully convertible currency.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)