Thank you very much for the research, Adam.
I think PMs already decided (?) because right now the
default currency for Mifos is Rupee and the default
locale is english and the double format is english.
But I was not sure so I posted the question.
kim
--- Adam Monsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 4:18 pm, Kimloan Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I start working on the story #69 "Move
> configuration
> > of default currency value from DB to config file."
> I
> > have a question about the display format of a
> double
> > to represent an amount of money. The format of the
> > double number is supposed to match the configured
> > locale or the configured currency?
> [...]
>
> Interesting question! I did a couple of quick
> searches and was unable
> to find any industry standards for say, displaying
> an amount of US
> dollars and cents when the current locale is fr_FR.
>
> I tried formatting USD 1,234.56 as a French (France)
> currency in
> OpenOffice.org Calc, and it displayed:
>
> 1,234.56 EURO
>
> (that last symbol is the Euro symbol in case it
> didn't show up in this
> post). I noted that the en_US convention of decimal
> formatting was
> used (comma as the thousands separator and period
> for the decimal
> point), and a Euro symbol was just tacked on the
> end.
>
> When I try formatting some amount of Euros in Java
> for fr_FR, it
> appears to use the fr_FR decimal formatting as well
> as the Euro
> symbol. For example:
>
> import java.text.NumberFormat;
> import java.util.Locale;
>
> class NFmt {
> public static void main(String args[]) {
> NumberFormat nf =
> NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.FRANCE);
> String fmttt = nf.format(1234.56);
> System.out.println(fmttt);
> }
> }
>
> It prints out:
>
> 1 234,56 EURO
>
> The thousands separator is some strange character...
> Vim tells me it
> is 0x00a0. UNICODE space character, maybe?
>
> Anyway, the other test I tried is to print out USD
> 1,234.56 while in
> the fr_FR locale, and I did this by removing the
> argument in the call
> to getCurrencyInstance(), then executing the class
> like so:
>
> $ LANG=fr_FR java NFmt
>
> But that just printed out
>
> $1,234.56
>
> Hrmm, that doesn't seem right to me... I'd expect
> that the fr_FR
> thousands separator and decimal point should be
> used.
>
> So the behavior of Calc, my inconclusive tests, and
> information in the
> Java Tutorial on customizing formats for numbers and
> currencies
> (
>
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/format/decimalFormat.html
> ) leads me to suspect the industry standard for
> displaying a monetary
> value of a different currency might just be whatever
> the user wants.
> I'm curious to see what the PMs suggest.
>
> This relevant Developerworks article might also be
> helpful:
>
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-mer08133/
>
> HTH,
> -Adam
>
> --
> Adam Monsen
>
>
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