Author: bfrantzdale
Description:
I mentioned this idea at the Village pump, but it appears it can't be
implemented easily with plain old templates:
A problem with mentioning dollar ammounts in a dictionary is inflation—the
meaning of a dollar changes so seeing that there was a $33 million bond to
finance the Golden Gate Bridge in 1933 means almost nothing to me. I would like
to be able to enter a dollar ammount like this: {{currency USD|33000000|1933}}
and then see “$33 million ($447 million in 2005 dollars)” or something similar.
Alternately this could be done like ISBN substitution, without any user
intervention.
This could be extended to a locale setting so one might see “$33 million (€382
million in 2005 euros)”.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement