Short currency conversion queries ("100 usd") should default to region's currency

Vapid

If I search "100 usd" Kagi will tell me that's "about 92.80 euros". If I do the same in Google, it will tell me that's "1 039,98 Swedish Krona".

I think when entering a currency search without specifying a target currency, it should convert to your region's currency. For some regions, this might be ambiguous, but for a lot of reasons there is a sane default answer.

For example, if I have the "Sweden" region selected, unless I specify a target currency, a sane default would be SEK (swedish crowns).

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I predict that an argument against this is that some region's "default" currency might not be clear. I think that's understandable, but I don't think that should hinder this being implemented in regions with clear answers.

https://www.iban.com/currency-codes

Vlad

Vapid Sounds reasonable. What if you have no region selected (or international?)

Vapid

Vlad I'm not sure what the default choice should be when you're in the international region.

Although, it seems you have already made a choice for that, even if not deliberate. Right now, all default conversions seems to be into USD (sek, dkk, nok, cad, etc. gets converted to usd by default), except USD itself which gets converted to EUR. If you keep this current behaviour for "no region", it will not be any worse than now.

I suppose you could base it on IP address, but I'm not sure this is something Kagi's userbase would appreciate.

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Vlad

I use international region all the time and I like the current (new) behavior, which is to convert everything to my local currency (BRL, brazil)

Hund

I was surprised to see that this wasn't a thing already.