Formatting currencies

[Steven R. Loomis]

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:
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>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Steven R. Loomis <srl at icu-project.org> wrote:
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>> Enviado desde nuestro iPhone.
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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.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 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. 
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> What to do with the symbol from the currency pattern? Ignore/Drop it? Or we'd have "¤69,900 US dollars".
>  
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>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 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
> 
> 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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