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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<sect1 id="zend.currency.introduction">
<title>Introduction to Zend_Currency</title>
<para>
<classname>Zend_Currency</classname> is part of the strong support for I18n in Zend
Framework. It handles all issues related to currency, money representation, formatting,
exchange services and calculation.
</para>
<sect2 id="zend.currency.introduction.list">
<title>Why should you use Zend_Currency?</title>
<para>
<classname>Zend_Currency</classname> offers you the following benefit:
</para>
<itemizedlist mark='opencircle'>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Complete Locale support</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
This component works with all available locales and therefore knows about more
than 100 different localized currencies. This includes informations like
currency names, abbreviations, money signs and much more.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Reusable Currency Definitions</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
<classname>Zend_Currency</classname> has the advantage that already defined
currency representations can be reused. You could also have 2 different
representations for the same currency.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Currency calculation</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
<classname>Zend_Currency</classname> allows you also to calculate with currency
values. Therefore, it provides you an interface to exchange services.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<emphasis>Additional Methods</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
<classname>Zend_Currency</classname> includes several additional methods that
offer detailed informations about currencies like which currency is used
within a defined region and what are the known abbreviations of a currency.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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