Currency

Overview

1. General notes

• Our source language is EN-US (US English)
• Remember to hand off designs to the Localization team
  • Confluence Localization Operations Team / Slack #prj-translations

2. Engineering notes

• Use the Intl browser API for localization. This will automatically localize currency into the correct format
• Where manually-created content needs to be formatted correctly in the code, use the relevant guidelines shown in this documentation
• Below is an example of using the Intl API:

Currency data

The preview has been updated.

CopySharePrettify

<ul>
  <li>
    Wilkommen! Your order comes to{' '}
    {new Intl.NumberFormat('de-DE', {
      style: 'currency',
      currency: 'EUR',
    }).format(4.56)}
  </li>
</ul>

<ul> <li> Wilkommen! Your order comes to{' '} {new Intl.NumberFormat('de-DE', { style: 'currency', currency: 'EUR', }).format(4.56)} </li> </ul>

• Follow the local convention for style, punctuation, and sequence

Manually-written EN-US content

• The United States Dollar symbol = $
• Put the symbol in front of the numbers. Format: [currency symbol][value]
• Don’t include a space between the currency symbol and the numbers
• If an amount is less than one, insert a zero before the decimal point
  • For example, $0.25 (instead of $.25)
• If using minus or plus symbol (to show price reductions or additions), place it in front of the currency symbol
  • For example, -$15.95 or +$3
• If the cent value is zero, remove the cents completely
  • Exception: If the cent value appears inline with other values that do include cents
  • For example, in an invoice or order summary
• Don’t include a space between the minus or plus sign and the currency symbol
• Don't include a currency abbreviation (each country site is localized)
• Don't include the cent symbol (¢)
  • For example, the US site will automatically display US dollars and the Australian site will display Australian dollars, so there's no need to label these with USD or AUD
• Don’t spell out dollars or cents. Just use the $ sign and decimals