Is it really this hard to print currency values?

[Robert Brenstein]

On 29.07.2012 at 9:05 Uhr -0700 Dr. Hawkins apparently wrote:
>As I sat down to finally encode currency into my output, I pulled old
>answers from older questions and did more searches.
>
>Is it *really* this hard to output currency?
>


If you deal only with dollars, the issue is trivial. Things get 
quickly complicated if you deal with multiple currencies.

Robert