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Because it is the exact translation. It would be nice if they converted it into your currency or just leave it as the original currency.


There's nothing exact about it, it's just wrong and very very confusing.

A currency is a unit, a scale-factor. It can only be translated if you also translate, i.e. re-compute, the corresponding measure (the number itself).

I would classify this a major bug, the reasonable thing if they don't want to fix it (since fixing it requires reaching out to a time-dependent currency conversion table, it might be a non-desirable thing to do) they should just not translate that part at all. Then it becomes up to the reader to go back and look up the currency in question, instead of just thinking it's already been done.


No, kroner doesn't translate to dollars anymore than inches translates to centimeters.


The exact translation of kroner would be kroner - not dollars. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kroner


> Because it is the exact translation.

No, it's not.




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