Re: Internationalisation and Currency

[John Foster <jfoster@augustmail.com>]

Robert Hutchinson wrote:
> 
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> 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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Seems like a good idea--however, if this can be implemented would there
also be a way to handle exchange rates via a similar script.
-- 
John Foster
AdVance-Computing Systems
jfoster@augustmail.com