[development] code proposal: localization of currency, ...

Ivan Sergio Borgonovo mail at webthatworks.it
Tue Oct 23 12:55:08 UTC 2007


On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:12:01 -0400
Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Quoting Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail at webthatworks.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.

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

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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