Re: prices in products.asc and on the page

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

I have "." in my products.asc and successfully convert to any other
currency with either "." or "," by using locale.asc with the functions
as described in the docs (Internationalization) for formatting the
individual language/currency output.
See: http://www.activeshop.ch 

Chris

Marco Goebenich wrote:
> 
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> 
> 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
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> >
> >
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