Re: Internationalisation and Currency

["Christian J. Müller" <cmueller@polinet.ch>]

Both exist: one currency, several languages (e.g. Switzerland, EC with
Euro) and one language, several currencies (e.g. english, USD, UKP
etc.). I have established one column for each language/currency pair in
my locale.asc. I admit that this results in an inflated locale.asc file.
You could also set your country/currency default and then change
currency as required with the [setlocale language= xxx
currency=xxx][/setlocale] or the [page
process/locale/xxx/currency/xxx/page/catalog] tags as described in the
docs under "Internationalization", "Setting the locale".
I agree that a separation of language and currency would be a more
elegant solution. 
Chris
 
Robert Hutchinson wrote:
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from hutch@cix.compulink.co.uk (Robert Hutchinson)     ******
> 
> Hi All,
> As far as I can see, minivend ties internationalisation to currency on the
> assumption that money comes with country. This is beginning to make less
> and less sense; A Spanish speaker might want to use US Dollars if they are
> from Argentina, say, or the Euro if they are from Spain, and so on.
> So it seems to me that these two functions need to be separated, and
> preferably set on entry into a catalog, so that calculations can be done
> properly.What minivend needs is a separate database, currency.asc
> containing the fieldsPriceDivide
> currency_symbol
> p_cs_precedes
> decimal_point
> mon_thousands_sep
> mon_decimal_point
> frac_digits
> p_sep_by_space
> 
> Is this an idea for mv4/maxivend or can this already be implemented?
> Ideas anyone?
> 
> Bye :-)=
> hutch@cix.co.uk
> 
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