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Yes, he clearly should have taken into account any possible subunit denomination, including exotic native tribe money units like sea shells, because internation
by pretoriusB 14y ago
Yes, he clearly should have taken into account any possible subunit denomination, including exotic native tribe money units like sea shells, because international programmers reading HN are not expected to think of that of their own.
- xnxn 14y agoSuch vitriol! Can your currency code handle sea shells? It should! :) I only mention it because the yen thing surprised me once as a newbie programmer. (A tip: "%0.2f" is no substitute for actual i18n.) It never hurts to be aware of the edge cases.
- pretoriusB 14y ago>Can your currency code handle sea shells? I'm afraid it mine can only handle sea shells! >I only mention it because the yen thing surprised me once as a newbie programmer. So what's the yen thing? How does it differ?
- xnxn 14y agoThe yen has no fractional units (anymore), so when I added support for that currency but continued to use the same format string as all the others, prices like ¥1000.00 looked unnatural.
- snogglethorpe 14y agoThe historical subunit of the yen is the "sen" (銭), which you often seen mentioned in prewar books. Postwar inflation made sen-denominated currency obsolete, but... [A bit of googling also turns up the "rin" (厘), which is a thousandth of a yen...]