Re: Euro mess (Was: valid locales ---> was bilingual websites

From: Karl Ove Hufthammer <huftis@bigfoot.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:51:57 +0100 To: www-international@w3.org Message-Id: <9t2gif.3vu9kip.1@ID-99504.news.dfncis.de> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:16:58 GMT

2001-11-15 21:50:45, David_Possin@i2.com:

> I am in the US with my PC set to en_US locale and I
> looking at a German catalog with German prices and German
> language descriptions, actually a German website. How
> should the prices be displayed?

I think CDNow <URL: http://www.cdnow.com/ > has a very nice
solution. The price of CDs are displayed like this:

    	$18.97 (172.97 NOK - For estimation purposes
       only. You will be billed in US Dollars.)

I personally find this *very* useful.

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer