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This whole mess is causing us headaches at work, because some LatAm sales people requested a second exchange rate for Venezuela since the real one is so broken.
by foobarian 10y ago
This whole mess is causing us headaches at work, because some LatAm sales people requested a second exchange rate for Venezuela since the real one is so broken. But a lot of the code assumes a 1-1 country-currency mapping, so if we give in we'll end up with special cases for Venezuela everywhere... sigh.
- lokedhs 10y agoDon't you have support for other types of non-national currencies like XAU (gold) and SDR (IMF special drawing right). There are also other countries with multiple currencies. Like Zimbabwe that uses the USD and SAR as well as some others.
- kalleboo 10y agoThere are also the situations where a country redenominates their currency and renames it in the process - e.g. the Mexican Peso went from MXP to MXN (the N standing for New). Zimbabwe has worked itself through ZWD, ZWN, ZWR, ZWL during various redenominations.
- foobarian 10y agoRMB and CNY are another one. Then there is the cent-less Japanese Yen...