currency VS icu

I maintain a decent solution in this problem space: https://github.com/bojanz/currency

FWIW I think cockroachdb/apd is the best third party option. While building bojanz/currency I've evaluated and benchmarked the others and found them either less maintained, slower, or both.

I have a package for handling currency amounts and calculations that is based on cockroachdb/apd, in my opinion the best arbitrary-precision decimal implementation in Go right now. So, I can offer a bit of insight.

Yes, MySQL/MariaDB have a decimal column type that should be used. I have an example of that here.

Did some benchmarks for bojanz/currency, after switching it to v3. The performance increase is noticeable.

I have the change done in a branch, I just need 4.0.0 to be released, but it's been a long wait (I opened https://github.com/bojanz/currency/issues/1 in May of 2020).

https://github.com/bojanz/currency https://github.com/bojanz/address

I have a package and a blog post for you: https://github.com/bojanz/currency https://bojanz.github.io/price-currency-handling-go/

If you want graphemes, something lile libgrapheme might suit you. If just code points, then the utf8.h from ICU can work, but you can also roll your own if needed.

OP, is this money in the context of storing and counting money, or money in the context of internationalization and localization? For the latter, you probably want bindings to icu or the x/text/currency package.

https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/pull/2213

This affects all packages that have icu as a dependency, one of them being Node.js.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/37271

I discovered this the hard way when some code malfunctioned shortly after daylight savings time kicked in.

No clue! It seems like a very deep rabbit hole to go down. You can start here: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu Version 72 I believe is when this was changed.

Installing icu4c from https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/tag/release-71-1 and put the path in "--with-icu-lib"

wget https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/archive/release-58-3.tar.gz

You need something like icu. https://github.com/unicode-org/icu

ICU, which ships as part of the core internationalization and localization frameworks of every major operating system, has a facility for transliterating keyboards! This is how you can type in Roman characters and get Devanagari in text, or enter pinyin and get Han characters. You can compose a Hiragana to Latin transliteration — but it’s a stretch to get actual English words this way.