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Define a unified way of writing prices, unit prices and weights, volumes etc. #15

Open drummer83 opened 3 years ago

drummer83 commented 3 years ago

This issue is about a standardized spelling of prices, unit prices, weights etc. Currently there are different ways mixed up in our software and they don't always comply with standards (see screenshots). grafik grafik(1)

According to the International System of Units (SI-System) it is a standard to write amounts and units in the following way:

Weight, volume etc.:

Division (Unit price):

Prices:

There are some open discussions about topics around this, like wishlist issue openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork#9160 and unit prices (which also takes into account the reading by screen reading software).

It would be great to have a general proposal by a designer how to do it in a formally correct and unified way that is commonly used and accepted by users.

After that we should have the proposal confirmed in a Product Circle meeting and implement it in our software.