Store: Localize currency symbols

[akirk]

Currently prices for domains and other products are displayed with a currency symbol, such as $ or €:

In some countries, though, the $ sign is used for the local currency, for example for peso in Argentina. So displaying something like

can be confusing.

Therefore:

• In each country, show prices in the local currency (if available) using the usual sign for that country.
• Show every other currency than the local one using the ISO 4217 code.

What might make the implementation of the fix trickier, is that for the displayed currency there is also a geographic component (for example with English display language but location in Europe, the Euro sign is being displayed).

[lamosty]

If I'm not mistaken, #6046 solves a part of this.

[rantoncuadrado]

@lamosty not sure. As this is already using $ instead of USD and there are lots of countries using $ as their currency symbol from Liberia Dollar to Mexican Peso (Argentina, Chile...)

More info here: http://www.xe.com/symbols.php

[rantoncuadrado]

Again, another example today with user cititsolutions reporting this should be clarified :)

[rachelmcr]

This came up in another support conversation, where a user in Brazil thought the displayed price was in BRL instead of USD. (Internal ref: 197408-h) Additional clarification about the $ sign referring to USD would help in these cases.

[iamtakashi]

I'm glad this has already been looked into. We'll have more confused users with Simple Payments that has just launched.

[iamtakashi]

I've just realised how old this issue is, and I wonder if it helps to tackle this issue bit by bit - making $ symbol always explicit including for US Dollar, that alone will go a long way.

[simison]

I merged a fix that helps a bit with some $ currencies #28380

Instead of "$" we now show "S$" for Singapore dollar etc:

Singapore dollar SGD → S$
Barbadian dollar BBD → Bds$
Brunei dollar BND → B$
Fijian dollar FJD → FJ$
Guyanese dollar GYD → G$
Liberian dollar LRD → L$
Namibian dollar NAD → N$
Solomon Islands dollar SBD → S$
Tuvaluan dollar TVD → $T

This helps especially with Simple Payments which could have multiple payment buttons in different currencies on one page.

[davipontesblog]

Moved to Checkout Redesign for triaging.

[michaeldcain]

At some point, the /shopping-cart/ endpoint started returning an indicator for non-US currencies that use the $. This should be fixed in Checkout. Closing.