Changing currency

[austin4]

Hi, I'm currently playing using the latest version of Simutrans (and Pak128.Britain). The currency displays as a '$' at the moment. I was wondering if it was possible to change this to a '£'. I tried looking around the various .tab files, but I haven't come across it anywhere yet.

[ceeac]

This is currently hard-coded (https://github.com/simutrans/simutrans/blob/master/src/simutrans/utils/simstring.cc#L131), but this is not too difficult to make this configurable.

[Leartin]

Shouldn't it be translateable? Or would that impact performance, since money is used so often?

[prissi]

Since most of it comes from the money to string, which obeys also predefined 000 separators, the impact would be minimal.

[Isaac Eiland-Hall]

And now I'm tempted to start the emoji-language translation.

[Yona-TYT]

And now I'm tempted to start the emoji-language translation.

Emojis, huh? That seems like a really cool idea to me, and with that we'd beat a lot of games that don't allow emojis in their chats. This is good for communicating with cultures that use other alphabets. 

[prissi]

r11667 has now a string CURRENCY which will translate to € or $ for most languages.

[Leartin]

Would it be possible to have it as a parameterized string? Depending on the currency, it might be more common to append or prepend it - it's minor, but if not now, it will certaibly never be done down the line.

[prissi]

But then let it be to the user (see r11670).