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Kevin Walsh
kevin at cursor.biz
Wed Jul 6 12:20:41 EDT 2005
John1 [list_subscriber at yahoo.co.uk] wrote:
> We operate an interchange site that sells in UK pounds.
>
> On a few rare occasions customers complain to us that all prices on the
> website have a ? instead of a £ sign in front of the prices.
>
> In Locale we have set currency_symbol to £. Consequently the html for our
> pages contains the £ symbol rather than £
>
> Could this be the reason for some people getting question marks instead of
> pound signs? i.e. Could the question mark be due to the regional settings
> of their computer or a lack of installed fonts?
>
> If so, should we change currency_symbol in Locale to £ instead of £
>
> I am a little cautious about doing this as it would also impact the plain
> text e-mail templates which use the [currency] tag. i.e. They would
> display £ instead of a pound sign, so I would have to change any
> e-mail templates to hard code a pound sign.
>
For UK websites, I tend to set the currency_symbol to £ and
then use a simple filter in the emails to convert £ to GBP:
[item-filter price2gbp][item-price][/item-filter]
The filter looks like this:
CodeDef price2gbp Filter
CodeDef price2gbp Routine <<EOR
sub {
my $val = shift;
$val =~ s/&price;\s*/GBP /g;
return $val;
}
EOR
Prices on pages look like "£123.45" and prices in emails look
like "GBP 123.45". You could modify the filter to strip the currency
altogether and add a note in the email along the lines of "all price
values are British Pounds Sterling." The filter could even look up
the currency_symbol for itself and strip it automagically.
Perhaps Interchange could be modified to define a currency_plaintext
Locale key and use that, instead of currency_symbol, when a certain
pragma is set on a page/email. Something to think about/discuss.
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