FYI<br><br>For those who are not subscribed to the SF list.<br><br>This change will probably mean significant work for us, but in the end will allow us to remove a lot of code and delegate the responsibility to the KLocale classes, and an increased consistency among KDE apps.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Alvaro<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">John Layt</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnlayt@googlemail.com">johnlayt@googlemail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:41 PM<br>Subject: RFC: Add ISO Currency Code support to KLocale<br>To: <a href="mailto:kde-i18n-doc@kde.org">kde-i18n-doc@kde.org</a>, <a href="mailto:koffice-devel@kde.org">koffice-devel@kde.org</a>, <a href="mailto:kmymoney2-developer@lists.sourceforge.net">kmymoney2-developer@lists.sourceforge.net</a>, <a href="mailto:stephane@miraks.com">stephane@miraks.com</a>, <a href="mailto:plasma-devel@kde.org">plasma-devel@kde.org</a><br>
<br><br>Hi,<br>
<br>
I am proposing to change KLocale to support the ISO 4217 Currency Code<br>
standard (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217</a>).<br>
<br>
The existing currency support is based on a free-text currency symbol field.<br>
This leaves applications such as KSpread, KMyMoney, Skrooge, Kraft,<br>
KEuroCalc, and various Plasma widgets to provide their own implementation of<br>
the ISO codes and translations of the names, leading to unnecessary<br>
duplication and inconsistency.<br>
<br>
This is an initial proposal aimed at improving the l10n and i18n issues, so<br>
comment is particularly sought from the translation teams on a number of<br>
issues, especially given how much work may be involved for them.<br>
<br>
I am also seeking comment from the various financial applications to ensure<br>
the initial implementation is flexible enough to meet their needs both now and<br>
in the future.<br>
<br>
Details of the Design and Outstanding Issues are at<br>
<a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/kdelibs/localisation#ISO_4217_Currency_Code_Support" target="_blank">http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/kdelibs/localisation#ISO_4217_Currency_Code_Support</a><br>
and the initial code can be found on the Review Board at<br>
<a href="http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2049" target="_blank">http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2049</a> .<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
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John.<br>
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