Re: currency in the hebrew locale

[Sagi Bashari]

On 11/08/2003 23:02, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:

On Sunday 10 August 2003 12:35, Sagi Bashari wrote:
 

Hello,

I'm trying to use the money_format() function in PHP (same as strfmon()
in C) to format a currency string.
However it looks like it uses the "??" (shin chet) as the nis symbol
(without gershayim) and not the real symbol (maybe because not all the
fonts support it).
   

Probably because whoever composed the Israeli locale wasn't familiar with it.

Maybe we should send them a patch then?

Edit /usr/share/i18n/locales/he_IL and change:

1. currency_symbol from "<U05E9><U05D7>" to "<20AA>".
2. p_cs_precedes from 1 to 0
2. n_cs_precedes from 1 to 0
Then, recompile your he_IL locale:

$ localedef -f CP1255 -i he_IL he_IL
(note I use CP1255 instead of ISO-8859-8 on purpose, since the ISO-8859-8 
doesn't contain the New Sheqel sign)

$ localedef -f UTF-8 -i he_IL UTF-8

Thanks, that did the trick! the currency_symbol is "<U20AA>" and not 
"<20AA>" though.

If anyone else is trying this - you must restart apache to make it work 
inside your PHP code.

Sagi



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