1 .TH currencies 5 "June 15, 2007" "" "File formats and conversions"
3 currencies \- currencies exchange rate database
5 This manual page describe the format of the currencies file
7 Whenever you work at a commercial multi locale project, currencies become a
8 topic of concern sooner or later. Sometimes you can satisfy yourself with a few
9 exchange rates that you lazilly updates, but what you need is a simple way to
12 The charset encoding is ascii7, that is compatatible with most charsets,
13 including utf8. It does not contain any locale specific data.
15 It's really basic. Each line has the syntax:
17 <3 letter international currency code> <decimal value>
24 This means than $ 0.7469 = £ 1.4758. From there all kind of conversion are possibles.
26 Some currencies have a 0 value.
28 .I /usr/share/currencies
32 .URL "http://www.nirgal.com/"
34 .BR curcy-update (1), curcy(1)