Re: Multi Currencies

[Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>]

>******    message to minivend-users from Victor Nolton <ven@pragakhan.com>
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>I've been reading up on the options of having multiple currencies on
>my online store. I was wondering if anyone had a online source for
>the different currencies and the rules for them. Information like the
>currency abbreviation (BEF=Belgian Franks) and the info on .'s and
>,'s , decimal places and symbols. Sorry I only know info on a few
>from the documentation and mailing list archives.
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Ven
>

The abbreviations are covered in ISO 4217, available e.g. on
http://www.xe.net/gen/iso4217.htm
or
http://www.freeamp.org/id3/iso4217.html

note that the Euro is usually listed as EUR, not XEU

There are reference sites out there that have information about locales for
JDK 1.1 and POSIX. A java demo and tutorial is available at
http://www.ibm.com/java/tools/international-classes/

For Posix there are locale definition source files available, they should
have all relevant info. Currency symbols is more difficult as half the
world uses $, which could get confusing. Since you would need the country
qualifier anyway, I would go with the 3-letter codes and possibly the
symbols defined as HTML entities.

I hope this gets you started,

Frank

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