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[edit] Generalize?

Can a more general version be produced to handle any ISO currency code? There's a discussion started at [1]. I'm thinking something that would take {{Price|USD|100.00|CAD|2006}} and render it as "US$100.00 (CAD$130.34 in 2006)" or whatever the FOREX histories show.LeadSongDog (talk) 18:23, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template does not agree with MOS

The recommendations by the Manual of Style differ from this template. Can you please look into this and fix either one or the other: Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Currency

Samsara (talk • contribs) 15:16, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I have changed the template to be in accordance with the Manual of Style. I think this template maybe should be deleted. It requires more typing than not using the template and it is highly doubtful that the standard will be changed from the English standard usage there now. - Centrx 19:33, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, to link the US$, it requires less typing. - Centrx 19:36, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Before it can be deleted, the pages that use it have to be changed. There are only about 20 of them. Can you do this? - Samsara (talk • contribs) 18:13, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I am content, possibly, to let that template remain, because it is somewhat useful, in that {{subst:USD|100}} is shorter to type than [[United States dollar|US$]]100, though maybe this just clutters the namespace for something that won't be used much or might be vandalized? Still, any article that uses it should use the "subst" part so that the text of the template is put right in the article, rather than referenced, which referencing apparently taxes the server. I am going to do that now. - Centrx 03:58, 26 May 2006 (UTC)