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Euro sign (€) position | 1.5 beta 3

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  1. Jan Egbert
    Member

    Hi guys,

    1.5 beta 3 is looking good.

    The euro sign is usually placed in front of the price value. So 5 euro's would be €5,00 instead of 5,00 €. Even better would be to have an extra option to influence the position of the currency symbol.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday November 26, 2010 | Permalink

  2. urmedia
    Member

    Are you able to access it with css? If so then choosing either float:left; or float:right; will do the trick. Just be sure you clear the float or it may mess up the custom CSS of the rest of the form.

    Alternately you could mess around with margin and relative/absolute positioning or even just margin. That might be a bit much for the typical user, however.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday November 26, 2010 | Permalink

  3. Jan Egbert
    Member

    Yeah, this is way too much for the typical user. If you offer support for multiple currencies, you should take this into account. Look at the amount of time you would spend answering support requests in here. I would take that extra 15 minutes to get this tiny feature in 1.5.

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday November 26, 2010 | Permalink

  4. Kevin Flahaut
    Administrator

    Jan, We'll take a look into it. Thanks for the suggestion. It's good to know that it will only take 15 minutes to do too ;)

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday November 26, 2010 | Permalink

  5. Jan Egbert
    Member

    Thanks Kevin. Don't shoot me if it takes 30 minutes. ;)

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday November 30, 2010 | Permalink

  6. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Unfortunately international currency is always a problem when it comes to formatting because it seems in some situations there are multiple ways of doing things. We can look at changing the formatting for the EURO, however i'll give you a rundown of what we encountered when trying to determine what format to use... inconsistency all over the internet.

    Amazon's French Website, which uses Euros, formats like this:

    http://grab.by/7ER7

    Apple's French Website, which uses Euros, formats like this:

    http://grab.by/7ERi

    Alapage.com which is a French site, formats like this:

    http://grab.by/7ERk

    Shopping.com's French site, formats like this:

    http://grab.by/7ERq

    Bonprixsecure.com's French site, formats like this:

    http://grab.by/7ERu

    Shopping.fr which is a French site, formats like this:

    http://grab.by/7ERx

    Actually looking back all of them except Amazon, which used the EUR text instead of the symbol were all formatting them with the currency symbol after the value. Which is why we went with this format in the end.

    Here are some more sites from other Euro based countries...

    Apple.com's Spain site:

    http://grab.by/7ERR

    Subprof.com's Spain site:

    http://grab.by/7ERZ

    Estiloshoes.com Spain site:

    http://grab.by/7ES8

    TucTucStore.es Spain site:

    http://grab.by/7ES9

    Here are some Italian sites I checked...

    GR Electronics Italian site:

    http://grab.by/7ESd

    MediaShopping Italian site:

    http://grab.by/7ESh

    Out of all the Euro sites I tried by browsing for country specific online stores via country specific versions of Google only one of them out of the sample is formatting currency with the Euro symbol in front of the value.

    Now this could very well be a country thing. It's possible different countries within the European Union format the Euro currency slightly different when advertising prices.

    We can look into how to take this into account, but this shows you a sample of what we ran into in our research.

    Posted 14 years ago on Tuesday November 30, 2010 | Permalink

  7. Jan Egbert
    Member

    Carl,

    Thanks for your very detailed post. I should have known this. It's true; different countries use different formats.

    Here are some examples.
    Germany: 10 EUR
    Netherlands: € 10
    France: 10 €
    Spain: 10 €
    Italy: EUR 10
    Ireland: €10

    There is even some difference in price formatting within countries. You can strip this down to 8 notations:

    1. €10
    2. € 10
    3. EUR10
    4. EUR 10
    5. 10€
    6. 10 €
    7. 10EUR
    8. 10 EUR

    My problem remains however. A form on a Dutch website that says 'this product will cost you 10 €' would be considered 'stupid' by Dutch visitors. It's a bit like telling your girlfriend 'you her love'. I see five options without considering the impact these options may have on Gravity Forms code:

    • Add an option to let users select their own format (Do you want the currency symbol to render before or after the price?). This is how many e-commerce systems work.
    • Use EUR instead of €. 10 EUR will not look as weird as 10 €.
    • Instead of a dropdown use a textfield for currencies. If Heinrich wants EUR, he could have that. If Jacques wants €, he could have that too.
    • Make it translateable(?).
    • Leave this as it is and you guys will get many support questions from all over Europe, except Spain and France. Which is not a bad idea, because everyone wants friends in Paris and Barcelona.

    The European Union doesn't seem to be very united after all. Some more information on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_issues_concerning_the_euro

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday December 1, 2010 | Permalink

  8. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    Thanks Jan, we'll look into how we can handle this better. Yea, the EU is united... but not really LOL.

    Posted 14 years ago on Wednesday December 1, 2010 | Permalink

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