Comment by paulddraper
2 days ago
!!!
A payment, bill, price, etc has a particular currency.
For example, 59.95 Australian dollars:
In en-AU locale, that is $59,95.
In en-US locale, that is 59.95 AUD or AU$59.95.
Either way, the quantity and units are the same, but they are presented differently.
In some cases, there may be currency exchange services. That will depend on the current exchange rate, and possibly exchange fees. And yes, that will take some more work. But that’s a fundamentally distinct concept than pure presentation of a monetary amount.
In en-AU locale, I’d prefer AU$ or AUD too - because you can just never be sure what you are dealing with - my work pays for me to use a coworking space not far from my house, and the app we use shows the price in US dollars, and doesn’t even mark it as US$ or USD, just plain $, I’m expected to know what it means. I’ve seen hotel sites quote amazingly cheap deals for hotel rates in Australia, only to realise they were quoting me USD (without clearly marking it as such), despite the fact that I was searching for a hotel in Australia from within Australia. In today’s global economy, you can’t go wrong by always being explicit about which currency you are using.
Maybe if we had <output type=“currency”> there would be fewer such snafus