[Seaside] Money ScaledDecimal is it really *appropriate*
Bert Freudenberg
bert at impara.de
Sat Feb 4 15:41:52 CET 2006
Am 04.02.2006 um 14:36 schrieb Martin J. Laubach:
> | Wonderful. I sign up to implement this. It will be a fun exercise.
>
> Just as pointer -- check what POSIX and Windows have as
> properties for their currencies settings. AFAICR, there are
> quite a bit more than you summarized. For example, I'm missing:
>
> - number of decimal places to the left for separating thousands
> (yes, there are really currencies out there where you split
> off *four* digits)
> - what to use as decimal point and what as thousand separator
> (in Europe, it's "," and ".")
> - where to put the currency sign (before or after the number)
>
> Probably quite a few unusual corner cases more, check it out...
This gets increasingly off-topic, but note that recently we added a
LocalePlugin to access OS information about the current locale.
Perhaps currency information is included there? The image support
code seems to be at http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=1328
- Bert -
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