Formatting currencies

Fri Nov 28 15:46:12 CST 2014

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> El nov 28, 2014, a las 12:56 PM, Rafael Xavier <rxaviers at gmail.com> escribió:
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> Hello friends, hope you had a blessed thanksgiving (if you happen to celebrate it).
> 
> Follow a couple of questions I had interpreting 4 Currencies, for which I'd very much appreciate your replies.
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> name currency formatting (displayName)
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>> 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}.
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> 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 does "with the number of decimals appropriate for the currency" mean? To use the supplemental currency data `digits` and `rounding` values to override the above pattern (for example, "69,900.00 US dollars" in en)?
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> supplemental currency data
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>> digits: the number of decimal digits normally formatted. The default is 2.
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> 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
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> Thanks,
> Rafael Xavier
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> CurrencyFormat
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