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[ERTP] decimal property #119
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How does Intl (internationalization API) handle formatting of currency amounts? |
I've used it only a little, but i've had a really good experience with it This issue is about the fact that if you create a currency with ERTP, you represent it only with natural numbers (like cents for dollars or satoshi for bitcoins), but ERTP does not allow to configure what a canonical string representation for the currency would be. This is where allowing mint authors to provide a Where i see the connection is that it can be recommanded to mint authors to use Intl/NumberFormat to write their formatting functions. But ERTP still needs to provide a way to share the |
follow up to Agoric/documentation#65 (comment)_
I imagine a good place for this could be the mint configuration. It's not clear to me how exactly yet
But it could take the form of a
stringify
function that takes units as argument and would return a string representing the units. Example: units representing dollars would be an object with the extent expressed as cents (like the number1234
for $12.34) and the stringify function would return the string12.34
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