RE: prices in products.asc and on the page

["Marco Goebenich" <mgoebenich@entire-systems.com>]

Hi!

Nice what you say but if I replace the "." with "," in the products.asc,
minivend cuts all after the decimal point in my English shop and not in my
German shop(and reverse).

Marco Goebenich


>
> Your message came somewhat garbled, but anyway: Localization
> affects the
> output of minivend, i.e. how pages will appear in the
> browser. They will
> have no effect on the databases used by minivend. You can set the
> localization parameters to whatever you want, the decimal point used
> internally will remain a period.
>
> The products.asc files is parsed with perl routines, and they want a
> standard format for internal use. This is identical across almost all
> programming languages. Unfortunately most programs and OSs for Mac and
> Intel PCs have their own idea how you want an export file to
> look like. If
> you want one of these files as a products.asc for minivend,
> you will often
> need to do some conversion.
>
> If you feel like it, you can try to extend the input filter
> of minivend,
> but I would rather create a short perl script on the server
> that takes care
> of this.
>
> Cheers, Frank
>
> --
> Frank Miedreich
> Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische  Forschung
> Leopoldstr. 24   80802 Muenchen   +49 89 38602-237
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