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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Locale for currency?
From:       Stephen Kelly <steveire () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-11-04 9:36:07
Message-ID: iatuq7$rd6$1 () dough ! gmane ! org
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John Layt wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> Yep, another one of mine :-)
> 
> I did quite a bit of research into that, and the usual standard is that
> money is formatted into the users locale, where the user expects the
> symbol to be. 

That's good enough for me. :)

> Having a different position and decimal separator would be
> very confusing to most users who are not aware that other possibilities
> exist.  Certainly in my time in banking I've never seen the formats mixed
> up, they are always consistent.  And like Albert says, there are several
> multi-national currencies that would be a problem, not just the Euro.

Yes, that's a good point. I'd never noticed before that the EUR goes after 
the price in de_DE, and before in en_GB.

http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/i.home
http://www.lidl.de/cps/rde/xchg/lidl_de

Cheers,

Steve.

> 
> Cheers!
> 
> John.


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