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Marius - 12 Jan 2007 09:58 GMT
Context would be e-cart's manual.

"With our software you can localise your e-store and provide the
product and
shipping pricing in visitor's home currency. That is, you can set
multiple
currencies and allow users to switch between currencies to view the
prices
of products and conclude payments in the currency they prefer. For that
you
have to set the currencies that your store supports."

Thank you in advance.
Bob Cunningham - 12 Jan 2007 12:33 GMT
> Context would be e-cart's manual.

> "With our software you can localise your e-store and provide the
> product and shipping pricing in visitor's home currency. That is,
> you can set multiple currencies and allow users to switch between
> currencies to view the prices of products and conclude payments
> in the currency they prefer. For that you have to set the currencies
> that your store supports."

> Thank you in advance.

The English is acceptable; the meaning is clear.  What's
your question?
Peacenik - 16 Jan 2007 03:05 GMT
> Context would be e-cart's manual.
>
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>
> Thank you in advance.

Do you want to use US or UK English?

"localise" is UK spelling, while "localize" is US spelling.

"store" is more common in the US, whereas "shop" is more common in the UK.

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Evan Kirshenbaum - 18 Jan 2007 21:27 GMT
> Context would be e-cart's manual.
>
> "With our software you can localise

"localize" in the US.

> your e-store and

Perhaps "to" rather than "and".

> provide the product and shipping pricing in visitor's home currency.

First of all, it should be "the visitor's" or "your visitor's".

The clause is a bit ambiguous, though.  I first read it as "provide
the product" and "provide shipping pricing in the visitor's home
currency", and I was going to suggest that it should probably say
"product description" unless the product was being provided by
download.  But then I realized that it made more sense to read it as
providing two types of pricing, both in the home currency.  As
written, it's not strictly wrong, but it might cause less confusion if
it were worded something like

   With our software you can localize your e-store and provide
   pricing information for products and shipping in the visitor's
   home currency.

or

   With our software you can localize your e-store and provide
   pricing information in the visitor's home currency for products
   and shipping.

> That is, you can set multiple currencies and allow users to switch
> between currencies to view the prices of products and conclude
> payments in the currency they prefer. For that you have to set the
> currencies that your store supports."

If e-cart provides a list of currencies, those "set"s might better be
"select"s.

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