Change global currency format in Mac OS X?

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Change global currency format in Mac OS X?

How can I change currency format in Leopard?

Russian local settings in OS X have a format like this: "123руб.", where "руб." is the currency name, but in Russian typography rules it should be written with a space after the amount: "123 руб.". I believe Apple needs to change it in the OS, but for now I'd like to do this at least on my computer. How?

Same can be told about "123%" and "123 %" in Russian.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 1, 2008 3:46 AM

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Oct 2, 2008 2:13 AM in response to lifeforweb

Welcome to the Discussions.

Apple's Feedback page is here.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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Oct 2, 2008 2:55 AM in response to Dave Hamilton

Thanks Dave.

I'll use that form, but I still would like to change this on my Mac without waiting for a fix from Apple.

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Oct 2, 2008 4:30 AM in response to lifeforweb

There is this MacOSXHints article. However, I don't know of the currency symbol will take a string instead of a character. You could try it and see. You'd be replacing the symbol with a space and the symbol in the single quotes.

The preference does not exist on my machine, so you should be able to delete it if it doesn't work. I think it will exist if you set any custom formats. Also, you were apparently able to change some of these items in the past on the International Preference pane, but not any more.
You can check for its existence first using

defaults read -g AppleICUNumberSymbols

It will report that "The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleICUNumberSymbols) does not exist" if it can't be found. You can delete an entry with

defaults delete -g AppleICUNumberSymbols

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