Recording serial numbers: do you include spaces or not?

I thought about this today. 

There are many notes with serial numbers that have a space, mostly it is between the prefix and the rest of the number but sometimes it is in the numbered sequence.

When you record serial numbers on Numista and elsewhere such as a home spreadsheet, do you list it with the space or ignore the space?

Some examples from my collection:

 England 50 Pounds

Cambodia 2000 Riels

Bolivia 100 Bolivianos

Italy 50000 Lire

Gibraltar 10 Shillings

USA 10 Dollars

Russia 1000 Roubles

What about other separators such as periods?

Germany 5 Mark

Argentina 100 Australes

All great collectors think the same. 🤣

Yes, I do that on my excel spread sheet, as some prefixes provide detail/year of issue, like Australia (AA25 123456 etc), New Zealand and a few others. The Swedish note use alphabet (K 12345678) for that or some other countries (A 123456 A).😁

Technically it is completely irrelevant just do what suits you best, personally I enter it how it is depicted on the note (in my Excel file I even used the same color codes).

What I rather want to know is how you enter those damn mixed left-to-right + right-to-left writing style Arabic ones? I always have to resort to using parenthesises. 

I have issues with Arabic writing too. I just can't type the prefixes the way it is printed on the notes. It's always turned up the other way round. Other prefixes like those Korean, Thai or Cambodian I just got Google Translate to help me.

Idolenz

What I rather want to know is how you enter those damn mixed left-to-right + right-to-left writing style Arabic ones? I always have to resort to using parenthesises. 

I don't know if I correctly understood your problem but it might help: select cell and press Ctrl+1. Go to “Alignment” then “Text direction”. If you choose “Context” (standard in Excel), it will align based on first character (Latin will align LTR while Arabic will align RTL), but you can force what you want by changing option to “Left-to-right” or “Right-to-left”

In excel it works but on Numista and most other simple input fields stuff will switch places no matter what you do.

Example: can you add this alphanumerical string in that order into Numista without the ()?

(ﻫ)(ﺹ34)789822

Idolenz

In excel it works but on Numista and most other simple input fields stuff will switch places no matter what you do.

Example: can you add this alphanumerical string in that order into Numista without the ()?

(ﻫ)(ﺹ34)789822

That's because context is not standard only in Excel but in most systems. Arabic ha is the first character so it changes to right-to-left (when you add brackets you just added a Latin script character as first one) and unfortunately there is no option to change that in most cases. Excel, Word and other softwares like that have options but not browsers

I always include spaces, as on the banknote.