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title="NEW - Currency icon is hardcoded to “$”, which is inappropriate to locales not using dollars"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100849#c14">Comment # 14</a>
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title="NEW - Currency icon is hardcoded to “$”, which is inappropriate to locales not using dollars"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100849">bug 100849</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:philipz85@hotmail.com" title="Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85@hotmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Yousuf Philips (jay)</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Heiko Tietze from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=100849#c13">comment #13</a>)
<span class="quote">> I'm primed to euro, the dollar symbol looks very similar to paragraph to me.</span >
Not sure how $ looks similar to ¶ though.
<span class="quote">> People from the U.K. may prefer a pound sign, the yen is something
> completely different, etc.</span >
Yes many users would prefer to see their local currency symbol used on the
'Format as Currency' button, but i doubt that people are going to spend time
creating icons for each locale and in all icon themes.
<span class="quote">> Let's understand currency as a symbol that we
> have to identify independent from the locale setting, similar to languages
> and flags.</span >
The dollar sign is quite universal when it comes to money/currency[1] and is
visible in most keyboard layouts with Shift+4. Many currencies use the dollar
sign as or within their currency symbol[2] and the sign is used by 4 out of the
top 10 traded currencies[3].
[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign</a>
[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar</a>
[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Most_traded_currencies">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Most_traded_currencies</a>
<span class="quote">> That means we require _one_ symbol that stands for money - Donald Duck maybe?</span >
I think you mean Scrooge McDuck. :D
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_McDuck">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_McDuck</a>
<span class="quote">> Here are some better ideas <a href="https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=money">https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=money</a></span >
Most of the icons either contain a bill or a dollar sign, but lets not forget
that we need something that looks good at large (24x24) and small (16x16) icon
sizes.</pre>
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