Money ScaledDecimal is it really *appropriate*

| Wonderful.  I sign up to implement this.  It will be a fun exercise.

  Just as pointer -- check what POSIX and Windows have as
properties for their currencies settings. AFAICR, there are
quite a bit more than you summarized. For example, I'm missing:

  - number of decimal places to the left for separating thousands
    (yes, there are really currencies out there where you split
    off *four* digits)
  - what to use as decimal point and what as thousand separator
    (in Europe, it's "," and ".")
  - where to put the currency sign (before or after the number)

  Probably quite a few unusual corner cases more, check it out...

        mjl

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Am 04.02.2006 um 14:36 schrieb Martin J. Laubach:

This gets increasingly off-topic, but note that recently we added a  
LocalePlugin to access OS information about the current locale.  
Perhaps currency information is included there? The image support  
code seems to be at  http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=1328

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On 2/4/06, Martin J. Laubach <[hidden email]> wrote:
>  AFAICR, there are
> quite a bit more than you summarized.

Absolutely. That's why I mentioned the "hairy" bit...

>   - number of decimal places to the left for separating thousands
>     (yes, there are really currencies out there where you split
>     off *four* digits)
>   - what to use as decimal point and what as thousand separator
>     (in Europe, it's "," and ".")
>   - where to put the currency sign (before or after the number)
>
I wonder. The second one seems an localization issue. In the
Netherlands, we'll write US$3.000,00 and not US$3,000.00 ...
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