ISO 4217 ISO 4217 code is to be followed by a hard space and the amount: In Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish the order is reversed; the amount is followed by a hard space and the ISO 4217 code: Note that, as illustrated, the order is determined not by the currency, but by the native language of the document context. In 1973, the ISO Technical Committee 68 decided to develop codes for the representation of currencies and funds for use in any application of trade, commerce
International Organization for Standardization end-users of products and services, ensuring that certified products conform to the minimum standards set internationally. The three official languages of the ISO are English, French, and Russian. The name of the organization in French is ', and in Russian, ('). "ISO" is not an acronym. The organization adopted "ISO" as its abbreviated name in reference to the Greek word "" (, meaning "equal"), as its name in the three official languages would have different acronyms. During the founding meetings of the new organization, the Greek word explanation was not invoked, so this meaning may have been made public later.