Re: code proposal: localization of currency, ...

Quoting Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mailwebthatworks.it>:

> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:12:01 -0400
> Earnie Boyd <earnieusers.sourceforge.net>
wrote:
>
>> Quoting Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mailwebthatworks.it>:
>
>> > Just curious... are there float that don't
share with currency
>> > separators and grouping?
>
>> The possibility exists but probably more based on
some other unit
>> of measure.  This thought just brought a good point
to mind;
>> currency is a unit of measure, so in looking at
coding for
>> localizing currency other units of measure should
also be
>> considered.
>
> But you should consider formatting and not conversion.
> Conversion is a responsibility of the application
(module) not of
> core.
>

Are you sure?  What about miles vs kilometers?  What about
foreign 
exchanges of currency?

> Unless you could group unit of measure in few groups it
would be
> overwhelming.
>

The unit of measure would need to be stored with the value
in the DB so 
that if I enter 2 miles you can read it as 3.219 (or 3,219
or 3 219 or 
...) kilometers and we now both have a good mental picture. 
Formatting 
is only 1/2 the picture, converting to differing units of
measure is 
the other half.

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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And sometimes, the notation can be *really* challenging:
http:// 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzanian_shilling#Symbol.

(I stumbled upon this while extending the Currency API with
support  
for currency symbols...)

Wim Leers  ~  http://wimleers.com/work