Hi Yury, On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 11:53:34 +0200, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> > > #1387 CurrencySymbol // BYR > > > "руб." or "бел.руб." > ... > > The string length doesn't matter technically, it should be a choice of > > usage if there is no national standard. I guess few people write long > > terms for the currency symbol when pricing goods, for example. Don't > > know though how the CLDR regards this. Maybe because as long as there is > > no standard they use the ISO code instead. > > In fact, I think such record is of almost no meaning outside the several > countries where such cultural artifacts exist traditionally. Abbreviation > doesn't equal symbol, after all. Perhaps, we should leave ISO code there? > Safe choice? It is safe. Just what do people expect if, for example, they have a Calc value cell and click the currency format icon? Do they want to see some sort of symbol or abbreviation, even if more than one charater or glyph, or the ISO code? > Otherwise, I think the primary setting should be "бел. руб.", to avoid > ambiguity. Ambiguity to what? My Cyrillic parser is broken ;-) Note that it is fine to have identical symbols for different currencies of different countries. For example, the $ symbol is not only used for USD. You don't have to make up symbols just to prevent ambiguity. > > What about #1395, decimal places of the currency? CLDR states that there > > are only integer amounts, OOo includes 2 decimals. > > Well, trivial currency data here doesn't include decimal places, indeed. > OTOH, > decimal places (kopecks) are still fairly commonly used, e.g., in tariffs. Tarrifs are something different, in telephone calls we can have a tarrif of 0.0099 Euro per minute, but the smallest coin is 0.01 Euro (== 1 Cent) so decimals are 2. What is the smallest amount of money you can have in your pocket? > Bit of over-eagerness on part of CLDR here? CLDR tries to be as correct as possible. It's the only way to go when you want to create a reference database. Eike -- OOo/SO Calc core developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GnuPG key 0x293C05FD: 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
