Re: [ubl-ndrsc] range of valid values for cc types

[Anne Hendry <anne.hendry@sun.com>]

Yes, my point was that it was not dealt with in the data type 
definitions, but
more at the application level, which in my experience is supported by os 
routines.

-A

Eduardo Gutentag wrote:

>>
>> However it sounds from your question that you're also asking about 
>> formatting (when/how to use the period as a thousands separator, 
>> etc)? Wouldn't this be more a contextualized (locale-specific) 
>> presentation issue more than a datatype issue?  Your suggestion to 
>> associate it with each type of currency I think is how it's currently 
>> done in most application localisation processes.  The numeric display 
>> details are specified as part of the overall locale which would also 
>> include language, currency, date/time zone, character type (single or 
>> multi-byte), collation sequencing, etc.  At least this is how I'm 
>> used to it being handled.  It's a localization issue, and is often 
>> handled by os level translation routines.
>
>
> Actually in this case it should be handled not by the OS but by the
> style-sheet used to extract data from the instance and present it
> to the user. It would be disastrous to either (a) leave it to the OS
> or (b) have one formatting specification within the instance that
> would override all localization considerations.
>