RFC: Add ISO Currency Code support to KLocale

[John Layt-2]

Hi,

I am proposing to change KLocale to support the ISO 4217 Currency Code
standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).

The existing currency support is based on a free-text currency symbol field.
This leaves applications such as KSpread, KMyMoney, Skrooge, Kraft,
KEuroCalc, and various Plasma widgets to provide their own implementation of
the ISO codes and translations of the names, leading to unnecessary
duplication and inconsistency.

This is an initial proposal aimed at improving the l10n and i18n issues, so
comment is particularly sought from the translation teams on a number of
issues, especially given how much work may be involved for them.  

I am also seeking comment from the various financial applications to ensure
the initial implementation is flexible enough to meet their needs both now and
in the future.

Details of the Design and Outstanding Issues are at
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/kdelibs/localisation#ISO_4217_Currency_Code_Support 
and the initial code can be found on the Review Board at
http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2049 .

Thanks!

John.
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Le lundi 2 novembre 2009 23:41:36, John Layt a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> I am proposing to change KLocale to support the ISO 4217 Currency Code
> standard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217).
>
> The existing currency support is based on a free-text currency symbol field.
> This leaves applications such as KSpread, KMyMoney, Skrooge, Kraft,
> KEuroCalc, and various Plasma widgets to provide their own implementation of
> the ISO codes and translations of the names, leading to unnecessary
> duplication and inconsistency.

Fully agreed ! Having this kind of information managed in KDE would be really useful from a Skrooge point of view.

>
> This is an initial proposal aimed at improving the l10n and i18n issues, so
> comment is particularly sought from the translation teams on a number of
> issues, especially given how much work may be involved for them.  
>
> I am also seeking comment from the various financial applications to ensure
> the initial implementation is flexible enough to meet their needs both now and
> in the future.
>
> Details of the Design and Outstanding Issues are at
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/kdelibs/localisation#ISO_4217_Currency_Code_Support 
> and the initial code can be found on the Review Board at
> http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2049 .
>

I will discuss details with Stéphane and get back to you. Thanks for working on this ! :D

Guillaume
 
> Thanks!
>
> John.
>
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