Currencies and Countries. Was: Re: OT: Thanks!

[Thomas Olsen]

On 24/10-2009 16:13 John Layt <johnlayt at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 19 October 2009 02:23:18 Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > On 19/10-2009 02:02 John Layt <johnlayt at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 18 October 2009 23:16:29 Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > > > Guess I'll better drop they eye-candy. Just thought it would look
> > > > cool
> > > >
> > > > :-)
> > >
> > > Well, for currency I don't think it's such a problem, as even when a
> > >  currency is used in several countries like the USD or NZD, there is
> > >  usually only one country that issues the currency and you can use that
> > >  flag.  The exception of course are things like the Euro, Caribbean
> > > dollar, and CFA Franc where you would need to find an appropriate
> > > symbol like the EU flag.
> >
> > I'm looking forward to seeing a KCurrency class. Maybe if I really want
> >  flags in Currency Converter I'll randomize which flag to be used for
> >  currencies used by several countries ;-)
> 
> Just remembered something about the ISO standard, the first 2 chars of the
>  ISO Currency Code are supposed to be the ISO Country Code for the issuing
>  country, so just use that to request the flag resource and you should be
>  good.  The obvious exceptions to this are the Euro (eu) which we don't
>  have (yet?), the Pound (gb vs uk), and anything starting with x which are
>  supra-national bodies which we don't have either.

The Euro wouldn't be a problem unless you mean the flag is not in KDE?

The British Pound is a little odd. Why do they always have to do everything 
differently? Eh - where are you from ;-)

The other - few - currencies could get a generic symbol as flag.

Thanks for the msg. I'll be updating both Currency Converter and Google 
Translator on kde-look in the next day or so but I think I'll hold the flags 
for now - looking forward to a kdelibs KCurrency class ;-)

Seriously though; if you could sketch up your ideas about it and how it should 
interact with other libs, what API etc. I could maybe prototype something in 
Python and hopefully sneak my way back to C++ that way. It's been waaay too 
long since I've done anything else than PHP, Python and the likes and I 
haven't made any contributions to KDE since 1998.

> Cheers!
> 
> John.

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Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

  Thomas Olsen