Formatting currencies

[Rafael Xavier]

The above open questions became trac tickets:

   - http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8053
   - http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8054
   - http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8055



On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Rafael Xavier <rxaviers at gmail.com> wrote:

> One more question.
>
> 3.2 Special Pattern Characters
> <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-numbers.html#Special_Pattern_Characters>
>
> ¤ (U+00A4) Prefix or suffix No Currency sign, replaced by currency
> symbol. If doubled, replaced by international currency symbol. If
> tripled, uses the long form of the decimal symbol. If present in a
> pattern, the monetary decimal separator and grouping separators (if
> available) are used instead of the numeric ones.
>
> The doubled and tripled forms are simply not mentioned in 4 Currencies
> <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-numbers.html#Currencies>
> section. There's also no mention defining what the "long form" is. Instead,
> there is displayName and there's an extensive algorithm explaining how
> displayNames should be implemented. It's also important to notice that
> unitPattern potentially varies depending of the plural count form. The
> tripled form doesn't support such variation. Therefore, they are not
> equivalent.
>
> Are the doubled and tripled forms defined somewhere else? Have they been
> deprecated and the above table not updated?
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Rafael Xavier <rxaviers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you ver much so far Steven.
>>
>>
>> On Friday, November 28, 2014, Steven R. Loomis <srl at icu-project.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Too much turkey i guess. Sorry, I was responding for "normal " currency
>>> format not plural name.
>>>
>>> For currency name format it does look like it should be better
>>> specified.  I'd expect "3 dollars" not "3.00 dollars". Anyways, I'll check
>>> on this next week.
>>>
>>> Enviado desde nuestro iPhone.
>>>
>>> El nov 28, 2014, a las 2:08 PM, Rafael Xavier <rxaviers at gmail.com>
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Steven R. Loomis <srl at icu-project.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Enviado desde nuestro iPhone.
>>>>
>>>> El nov 28, 2014, a las 12:56 PM, Rafael Xavier <rxaviers at gmail.com>
>>>> escribió:
>>>>
>>>> Hello friends, hope you had a blessed thanksgiving (if you happen to
>>>> celebrate it).
>>>>
>>>> Follow a couple of questions I had interpreting 4 Currencies
>>>> <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-numbers.html#Currencies>,
>>>> for which I'd very much appreciate your replies.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *name currency formatting* (displayName)
>>>>
>>>> To format a particular currency value "ZWD" for a particular numeric
>>>>> value *n*:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> 5. The numeric value, formatted according to the locale with the
>>>>> number of decimals appropriate for the currency, is substituted for
>>>>> {0} in the unitPattern, while the currency display name is substituted for
>>>>> the {1}.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What does "formatted according to the locale" mean? To use locale's
>>>> decimal standard pattern (for example, #,##0.### --- "69,900 US
>>>> dollars" in *en*)? Any other pattern instead?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, the currency pattern.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What to do with the symbol from the currency pattern? Ignore/Drop it? Or
>>> we'd have "¤69,900 US dollars".
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> What does "with the number of decimals appropriate for the currency"
>>>> mean? To use the supplemental currency data
>>>> <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-numbers.html#Supplemental_Currency_Data>
>>>> `digits` and `rounding` values to override the above pattern (for example,
>>>> "69,900.00 US dollars" in *en*)?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *supplemental currency data*
>>>>
>>>>> *digits: *the number of decimal digits normally formatted. The
>>>>> default is 2.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Are "number of decimal digits" the minimum fraction digits or the
>>>> maximum fraction digits? I'd assume the minimum.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Min and max. So USD and EUR=2, so 0.99, 1.00, 1.01, etc
>>>>
>>>
>>> Actually, I wasn't sure if it was:
>>> - Min and max (e.g., f(1) = "$1.00", f(1.123) = "$1.12"), or
>>> - Max only (e.g., f(1) = "$1", f(1.123) = "$1.12").
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Rafael Xavier
>>>>
>>>> CurrencyFormat
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