Re:Venezuela’s Currency Has Had its Biggest Monthly Collapse
by foobarian on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:05PM
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This whole mess is causing us headaches at work, because some LatAm sales people requested a second exchange rate for Venezuela since the real one is so broken. But a lot of the code assumes a 1-1 country-currency mapping, so if we give in we'll end up with special cases for Venezuela everywhere... sigh.
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Re:Venezuela’s Currency Has Had its Biggest Monthly Collapse
by lokedhs on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:58PM
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Don't you have support for other types of non-national currencies like XAU (gold) and SDR (IMF special drawing right).
There are also other countries with multiple currencies. Like Zimbabwe that uses the USD and SAR as well as some others.
Re:Venezuela’s Currency Has Had its Biggest Monthly Collapse
by kalleboo on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:23AM
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There are also the situations where a country redenominates their currency and renames it in the process - e.g. the Mexican Peso went from MXP to MXN (the N standing for New). Zimbabwe has worked itself through ZWD, ZWN, ZWR, ZWL during various redenominations.