https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125980

--- Comment #16 from Aivaras Stepukonis <[email protected]> ---
> That's (a) because the locale files attached here have only two currencies,
> but mainly (b) because that won't be possible, there is no ISO 4217 code for
> your third currency, it seems there is no such thing as "Lithuanian Euro",
> see 
> http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/currency_codes.htm
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217
> 
> The file won't compile without a valid ISO code in CurrencyID.

I'm I understanding this correctly:

One (1) can localize the format for currency numerals but (2) not the
abbreviation of the name of the currency?

If that is the case, the feature of automatically inserting currency names in
calc documents is seriously lacking as it does not respond to a very basic
linguistic need: Lithuanians write "Eur" because Euro is called "Euras" in
Lithuanian. This per se has nothing to do with ISO codes, and everything to do
with a simple fact of life that Lithuanians speak and write about Euro in
Lithuanian. In other words, the correct and most widely used way to write 35,27
€ in Lithuanian is "35,27 Eur" and AOO, even after having been completely
localized, has no means to do this.

Should I start a new thread asking to add to Calc the local abbreviation of the
currency in use at a given locale?

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