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As part of my current localisation obsession, I've decided to pickup on an old wish list item to add support for the ISO 4217 Currency Code standard to KLocale.  Currently applications such as KSpread, KMyMoney, Skrooge, Kraft, KEuroCalc, and several Plasma currency converter widgets all have to maintain their own lists of codes and translations, which seems unnecessary duplication to me.  I've posted a design on TechBase and an implementation on Review Board for people to have a look at, so if you work on one of the financial apps that might use this then please have a look and comment (I tried e-mailing everyone, but I've got some bounces).

One thing I learned that I never knew before (besides lots of esotoric facts about currencies like there are only two non-decimal currencies left) was that some countries group their digits in different size groups than thousands.  In India for example, they group their digits in groups of two except for the smallest group which is a group of three, i.e. 00 00 00 000 instead of 000 000 000.  In China and Japan they use groups of four.  POSIX already has a format definition for this in LC_NUMERIC and LC_MONEY so Gnome probably supports it, and Windows supports it, so I guess that's another item on my TODO list :-)

ISO 4217 Currency Code standard