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Such 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:
by xnxn 14y ago
Such 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...]