.TH currencies 5 "June 15, 2007" "" "File formats and conversions"
.SH NAME
currencies \- currencies exchange rate database
.SH SYNOPSIS
This manual page describe the format of the currencies file
.PP
Whenever you work at a commercial multi locale project, currencies become a
topic of concern sooner or later. Sometimes you can satisfy yourself with a few
exchange rates that you lazilly updates, but what you need is a simple way to
get curency rate.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The charset encoding is ascii7, that is compatatible with most charsets,
including utf8. It does not contain any locale specific data.
.PP
It's really basic. Each line has the syntax:
.PP
<3 letter international currency code> <decimal value>
.SH EXAMPLE
.nf
GBP 1.4758
USD 0.7469
.fi
.PP
This means than $ 0.7469 = \(Po 1.4758. From there all kind of conversion are
possibles.
.SH BUGS
Some currencies have a 0 value.
.PP
The rate system is base on only one currency, and is not suitable for or legal
conversions. For exemple, French franc value must not be described in euro:
Legal conversion system is the 5 digit value of the euro in french francs.
However, this system will be suitable for most uses.
.SH FILES
.I /var/currencies
.SH "AUTHOR"
Jean-Michel Vourg\(`ere
.mso www.tmac
.URL "http://www.nirgal.com/"
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR curcy-update (1), curcy(1)