Currency formats: should they be tied to language?

One of the most commonly asked questions on the AS MSDN Forum is how to format measures that contain values in different currencies with the correct currency symbol. I've never blogged about this because a lot of people have already written up the solution in detail, for example Mosha:
http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/mosha/archive/2005/10/13/mdx_format_currency.aspx

and Vidas:
http://www.ssas-info.com/analysis-services-faq/27-mdx/244-how-change-currency-symbol-based-on-selected-currency-dimension-member

However I was thinking about this recently and in my opinion there's a big problem with using the Language property to do this. And that is that when you set the Language of a cell, you not only change the currency symbol but you also change other ways that the number is formatted, for example the symbols used as thousands separators and decimal separators. In the US and UK of course, we use full stops (I think they're called 'periods' in the US?) as decimal separators and commas as thousands separators, but in continental Europe the roles are reversed.