Re: [ic] Interchange on Mac OS X Panther Locale problem.. nearly solved

[Mark Bryant <suppressed>]

At 22:14 25/02/2004, you wrote:

> On 24 Feb 2004, at 22:12, Mark Bryant wrote:
>
> > At 20:53 24/02/2004, you wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I am running Interchange 5.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.2 Panther With standard 
> > > Apache, MySQL and recompiled unthreaded perl 5.8.3. Its not a production 
> > > site just a test rig in fact its running on a G3 Lombard Powerbook  and 
> > > it works fine.
> > >
> > > But I am having a problem setting the locale for the UK I have set the 
> > > locale to be en_GB in the catalog.cfg file and in the Admin interface 
> > > under internationalisation.
> > >
> > > I have added a en_GB column to locale.txt in products directory
> > >
> > > I have attempted to set the default tax to VAT and 17.5 % in the tax 
> > > admin area
> > >
> > > I have also tried to crib as much as I can from www.webmaint.net's 
> > > excellent UK localisation documentation (thanks) and from the 
> > > interchange documentation wiki.
> > >
> > > The result is that Tax does not work and I have lost the default dollar 
> > > sign but the UK pound sign has not appeared.
> > >
> > > I don't think the problem is down to Mac OS X it is more likely to be I 
> > > have missed some steps in the localisation.
> > >
> > > Can anyone give me some pointers please.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Hillary
> >
> > Hi Hilary,
> >
> > To get UK tax showing through in pages such as the fly page and 
> > components like random, best sellers, etc  after setting the tax in the 
> > admin UI, I still had to put this usertag in my catalog.cfg and edit a 
> > few pages to make them call/use it:
> >
> > # per item tax calculations
> > UserTag addtax Order amount cat notax
> > UserTag addtax addAttr
> > UserTag addtax Routine   <<EOR
> > sub {
> >         my ($amount, $cat, $notax, $ref) = @_;
> >         return currency( $amount, $ref->{noformat} ) if $notax;
> >         my $cfield = $::Variable->{MV_COUNTRY_FIELD} || 'country';
> >         my $country = $ref->{country} || $::Values->{$cfield};
> >         return 0 if ! $country;
> >         my $ctable   = $ref->{country_table}
> >                                 || $::Variable->{MV_COUNTRY_TABLE}
> >                                 || 'country';
> >         my $c_taxfield   = $ref->{country_tax_field}
> >                                 || $::Variable->{MV_COUNTRY_TAX_FIELD}
> >                                 || 'tax';
> >         my $type ||= $Tag->data($ctable, $c_taxfield, $country);
> >         return currency( $amount, $ref->{noformat} ) if ! $type;
> >         $type =~ s/^\s+//;
> >         $type =~ s/\s+$//;
> >         my $tax = Vend::Util::get_option_hash($type);
> >         my $taxrate = defined $tax->{$cat} ? $tax->{$cat} : $tax->{default};
> >         $taxrate =~ s/\s*%\s*$// and $taxrate /= 100;
> >         $amount += $amount * $taxrate;
> >         return currency( $amount, $ref->{noformat} );
> > }
> > EOR
> >
> >
> >
> > I then edited the pages that were not showing the tax inclusive prices to 
> > use this line instead of the default one
> >
> > Our Price: <b>[item-price]</b>
> >
> > becomes:
> >
> > Our Price: <b>[addtax [item-price noformat=1][item-field 
> > tax_category][item-field nontaxable]]</b>
> >
> > The GBP pound sign should then appear along with the tax inclusive price.
> >
> > I hope this helps solve your problem :)
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > Eros Shop
> > vwe internet ltd
> > PO BOX 1067
> > SLOUGH
> > SL1 7YA
> > UK
> >
> > Shop - http://www.eros-shop.co.uk
> > EMail - suppressed
> > Tel - 0870 737 3369
> > Fax - 0870 737 4469
>
> Hi Mark, All,
>
> Thanks for the pointers everyone. I have made some progress.
>
> I looked at Marks suggestion but could not see why I would have to enter 
> that much code when previous versions of Interchange worked OK So....
>
> By carefully re-reading the instructions at www.webmaint.net I realised 
> that I had been going to the admin > preferences . Tax part of the menu 
> when I should have been going to admin > COMMERCE > tax
>
> Duh. When I did that and set the tax rate and shipping as directed Tax 
> worked but I still could not get a GBP Pound sign.
>
> I then looked at the ISO listing of country names and found that the UK 
> and Great Britain are treated as two separate places. With ISO information 
> letter code GBR iso number 826 but blanks for the similar rows in the UK 
> entry. I copied the GBR code and 826 number into the respective places in 
> the UK entry and presto it worked.
>
> However.... The pound sign has now replaced the dollar *after* the price. 
> But in the UK the currency symbol should appear *before* the price.
>
> I tried altering the price_picture entry for en_GB in locale.txt but this 
> has not worked.
>
> So I am again asking for help. Are there any other ways I should try and 
> set the pound sign correctly?
>
> best wishes,
>
> Hillary

Hillary,

In your locale.txt, make sure that p_cs_precedes is set to 1 for the en_GB 
column and apply changes. That should sort the location of the pound sign 
for you :)

Mark




Eros Shop
vwe internet ltd
PO BOX 1067
SLOUGH
SL1 7YA
UK

Shop - http://www.eros-shop.co.uk
EMail - suppressed
Tel - 0870 737 3369
Fax - 0870 737 4469


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