OT: Thanks!

[John Layt]

On Sunday 18 October 2009 00:51:04 Chani wrote:
> um, what about currencies with >1 subunit? :) china's got kuai/yuan,
>  mao/jiao and fen/(I forget). (yes, they have two names for each unit,
>  too!) 1 kuai = 10 mao, 1 mao = 10 fen.
> then again, dealing with fen was so rare IME that maybe it can be ignored,
>  but I don't know if there are other currencies where it can't be ignored
>  so easily.

Yep, that's something I'm still mulling over.  There's at least 3 currencies 
that do this, and do it in different ways, but all the ones I've seen so far 
do seem to have one preferred, or we can always just use the smallest subunit.  
There's no other OS or desktop I've seen that supports multiple subunits, so 
it could be an advantage for us to do so, but I'm not sure all the extra 
overhead would be worth it.

And I need to talk to the translators about all the different naming schemes 
and plurals, etc.  Who knew such a simple thing could be so complex? :-)