Re: Localization-problems

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

At 01:58 AM 6/23/99 , Thomas 'Balu' Walter wrote:
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>Hiho List...
>
>I am just playing around with the euro-setup in my catalog (see the FAQ for
>the Locale-Settings). 
>
>Looking in the manual again I found that the [setlocale]-tag has a
>currency-argument and I thought that this should be the argument to use to
>get the euro-prices, because euro has nothing to do with the language
>itself... So I tried:
>
>DM: [currency]2[/currency]<br> 
>[setlocale currency=eur_EUR]
>  Eur: [currency]2[/currency]<br>
>[setlocale currency=de_DE]
>Should be DM: [currency]2[/currency]<br>
>
>But the "Should be DM:"-Line still says the price in euro (just setting the
>locale - without using currency= in the setlocale-tags - works right).
>
>Another point I am worried about is how do I set the default locale that is
>used if a [setlocale]-Tag is used (without arguments). I know that this is
>stored in the scratch variables mv_locale and mv_currency, but those
>variables seem to be empty.
>
>I always thought that the last Locale-Directive of the catalog.cfg is used
>as default (if not - why are all my prices displayed in DM by default? ;-).
>
>     Balu
>
>PS: Playing around with the currencies I also wonder if there is/should be a
>way to access an (*don't know the word*) money-exchange-database with actual
>exchange-values.

	A PERL script could lift it off of a website (there are a bunch) HOWEVER,
every converter I've seen has been for bank rates (exchanges of huge sums
of money)...  If you were doing the exchanging, you'd probably want to add
a percentage.  *shrug*
	About your locale questions, I don't know the answer.   ;-)

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