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Add Caribbean Guilder (XCG) #1123

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- **Potential breaking change**: Fix USDC decimals places from 2 to 6
- Fix typo in ILS currency
- Add Caribbean Guilder (XCG) as replacement for Netherlands Antillean Gulden (ANG)

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"iso_numeric": "951",
"smallest_denomination": 1
},
"xcg": {
"priority": 100,
"iso_code": "XCG",
"name": "Caribbean Guilder",
"symbol": "Cg",
"alternate_symbols": [],
"subunit": "Cent",
"subunit_to_unit": 100,
"symbol_first": true,
"html_entity": "",
"decimal_mark": ",",
"thousands_separator": ".",
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This PR has , for decimal and . for thousands, but this PR has the opposite. I don't see anything on the linked wikipedia article or a cursory web search to clearly support either of these. Can you explain the formatting choice here?

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There's indeed not a lot documentation available. I have chosen to re-use it from ANG:

money/config/currency_iso.json

Lines 67 to 81 in e39077a

"ang": {
"priority": 100,
"iso_code": "ANG",
"name": "Netherlands Antillean Gulden",
"symbol": "ƒ",
"alternate_symbols": ["NAƒ", "NAf", "f"],
"subunit": "Cent",
"subunit_to_unit": 100,
"symbol_first": true,
"html_entity": "ƒ",
"decimal_mark": ",",
"thousands_separator": ".",
"iso_numeric": "532",
"smallest_denomination": 1
},

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Ah, makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!

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The Caribbean guilder is a special case because it's the official currency for two countries: Sint Maarten and Curaçao. In Sint Maarten they default to English style formatting (e.g. Cg 1,000.00) and in Curaçao they default to European style formatting (e.g. Cg 1.000,00).

An example of localised Cg formatting with Carrefour in Sint Maarten (left) and Curaçao (right):

Carrefour prices in Sint Maarten Carrefour prices in Curaçao

It's probably fine to keep the configuration as is. Out of curiosity I've reached out to their Central Bank to see what they recommend as a default. While the Money (AFAIK) gem doesn't have something out of the box like Intl.NumberFormat that gives the correct format given a locale, one can still configure the formatting for this special currency programatically when working with locales.

"iso_numeric": "532",
"smallest_denomination": 1
},
"xdr": {
"priority": 100,
"iso_code": "XDR",
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