Currency patterns and fraction information

[Mark Davis ☕️]

The currency data overrides the pattern decimals completely. You can look
at ICU for an example.

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On Nov 7, 2014 7:49 AM, "Isaac Jurado" <isaac.jurado at roiback.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> First of all, I want to apologize in advance just in case my question is
> too dumb.  My question is about currency formatting and decimal places.
>
> Most of the locale definitions use a currency pattern that ends with
> "0.00".  This means that, at least, one integer and two decimal digits
> will be printed along with its decimal separator.  However, the
> supplemental data contains information about decimal digits usage and
> rounding policies [1, 2].
>
> For those currencies that do not use decimals at all (a.g. COP, the
> obsolete ESP, JPY, etc.), the currency format pattern still forces a
> decimal separator followed by two zeroes to be "printed".  Is that
> considered an implementation mistake or the <fractions> element is
> completely unrelated to the currency pattern.
>
> In other words, is there any implementation deriving from CLDR that
> makes use of fraction information when formatting a currency value?
>
> Thank you.
>
> [1]
> http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/26/supplemental/detailed_territory_currency_information.html#format_info
> [2]
> http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/supplementalData.xml
>
> --
> Isaac Jurado
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