Additional yen conversion parsing

[0xNF]

In multilingual discussions on the internet, I often encounter yen-denominated sums written with k, m, or t metric suffixes, for example, 40k円, which doesn't parse in 10ten.

What do the maintainers think of allowing these suffixes to be parsed?

[birtles]

Absolutely. We already parse some pretty non-standard numbers and I'm more than happy to add more if they occur in the wild.

Do you happen to have any URLs with examples of these variants?

[0xNF]

It's most prevalent on reddit:

• Japan Dentist - from 40k to 200k円
• ...at about 1k 円 for 240 blank cards...

But you'll sometimes see it on explainer sites in Japanese:

• 1K円＝1,000円という表現が生まれたのですね。
• 1,000,000円＝1,000k円＝1M円です

To say nothing of the discord chats it sometimes comes up in. It's mostly an English-Japanese speaker thing.

[birtles]

Thank you! So basically 洋製日本語. Nice.

[birtles]

In multilingual discussions on the internet, I often encounter yen-denominated sums written with k, m, or t metric suffixes, for example, 40k円, which doesn't parse in 10ten.

@0xNF What is the t suffix used for?

[SaltfishAmi]

What is the t suffix used for?

兆円, I guess??

[0xNF]

Trillion yen, often seen in discussions of government fiscal budgets.

[birtles]

Thanks! So I guess "b" should be a suffix too?

[0xNF]

Yeah, I didn't expand in detail in my original comment which is my bad.

(m)illion yen
(b)illion yen
(t)rillion yen

Is what I had in mind.
In theory (q)uadrillon lurks out there on the net somewhere too but I've never personally seen it.

[birtles]

I've done a basic implementation of this over in #2049 but looking at the dentist thread from an earlier comment I guess it would be more useful if this recognized "5k yen" too?

I'm not sure if it's ever going to recognize the "40k" in "40k to 200k円", however, since that would require parsing quite a bit more of the context to make that work.

[birtles]

Updated #2049 to cover "5k yen" too.

[0xNF]

This is fantastic, thanks so much.

[birtles]

This is fantastic, thanks so much.

Thank you!