Research ways that currencies are displayed

[BeejLuig]

Put reference websites below:

[BeejLuig]

https://www.hotels.com/ actually allows you to select nearly EVERY currency available and see it in a list form. Pretty neat!

Potential parsing roadblocks:

• currencies/symbols in separate tags
• duplicate prices in container tags (accessibility feature?)
• Symbols that don't match with our static map -- will mostly affect currencies that use the "$" symbol

Potential solutions:

• https://github.com/mktj/parsecurrency -- can handle parsing with different currency/number combos. Returns a nice object
• For the above symbol issue, we could simply add an attribute to the static currency objects to support alternate symbols. It would be tedious but the number of currencies using "$" isn't that big (~10)
• Look into use case for toLocaleString (yay browser APIs 🙌)

The currency sections of the toLocaleString docs reference this official currency list. I used this list for the static currency-codes.json

[BeejLuig]

Looks like we can handle issue #2 from here as well

[kerrykimrusso]

Look into use case for toLocaleString (yay browser APIs 🙌)

The amount of localization in web APIs always astounds me even though it shouldn't.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Number/toLocaleString#Performance

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/NumberFormat

[BeejLuig]

Yes, we want to lean on as many web APIs as possible, only using 3rd party libraries if necessary

[BeejLuig]

Pretty thorough article on currency localization: https://sites.miis.edu/zzhou/2017/12/19/formatting-currency-by-using-javascript/