RE: proposal: EURO handling in ICU 2.0 - new PREEURO variant

[Carl W. B. <cb...@xn...>]

Markus,

> Carl, in some EU-but-not-Euro countries, one sometimes needs to
> work with Euro currencies and format currency values.

I am dense sometimes but I see the problem.  You want to be able to display
the Euro with 2 decimal places using the English currency positioning and
delimiters.  Fortunately the English could use ca_ES_EURO just for currency.

It looks like ICU is not well designed for listing foreign currency.  I
guess that there could be a special unum_open that took two locales.  It
would take the CurrencyElements from one, and build a pattern from the
second using the precision from the first.

This is certainly not a consideration for ICU 2.0.  I have no idea if there
is enough use to consider for other releases.

Carl