Re: Currencies list?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 16:32 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone know of a LGPL (or similar) library that can give me a
> >(translatable) list of currencies (with symbol, name, and country)? I
> >would like to use this for the numeric formatting options in Glom.
> >
> >  
> >
> The currency codes and names are listed in ISO 4217, see:
> http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/currencycodes.html
> http://www.xe.com/iso4217.htm
> 
> What programming language are you interested in? I suppose C?

Yes, C/C++.

> There is already a textual domain for currency names, maintained at
> the Translation Project:
> http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/registry.cgi?domain=iso_4217

Thanks, but I'm not sure how I should use this in my application.

For instance
- how could I get a list of currencies.
- how could I get a translation of a currency name, in the current
locale?
 
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