This document explains how to change the default currency settings and date representation. The defaults are set when you change the default language. Custom settings are kept until you switch to another default language.

Time and date settings are still in development. Changes to these parameters aren't reflected in the control panel.

To set custom regional settings:

1. Select Regional Options in the Look and Feel menu.
2. On the page that appears, enter preferred locale settings:



• Currency symbol used in your country that you want to show in prices, invoices etc.
• Corresponding International currency symbol which is an international string denoting the local currency.
• Decimal Monetary Separator, a character used to format decimal numbers.
• Grouping Separator, a grouping character used to separate thousands, e.g: 100,000,000.
  Note: It's commonly used for thousands, but in some countries it separates ten-thousands.
• Currency pattern that shows how your monetary amount will look like. Refer to Comments regarding currency pattern for details. For example, the European currency pattern will look as follows: # ¤,##0.00;-# ¤,##0.00 (in some countries negative subpatterns are put into brackets: # ¤,##0.00;(# ¤,##0.00)) Another example for pattern: #,##0.##: for 3456.00 -> 3,456 althought #,0#0.00: for 3,456.00 -> 3,456.00.
• Appearance Samples displays monetary amounts the way they will show in the system after you change the pattern.
• Short, medium, long and full date formats represent dates in your control panel. This feature is not yet implemented, though reserved for future versions.
3. Click Submit and take a look at the values in the Appearance samples box to see how your changes will affect monetary amounts throughout the control panel.