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I am working on a site that has very basic computer users working with and they pointed out to me that the error "Please enter a valid amount" when you include a $ sign in a donation amount field is not a good error message. I went to look for this error message and I see it is in several places and sometimes has "(numbers and decimal point only" as well which is much better. Before I start changing each of these error messages in the code I want to see what the best practice is and how to go about this.

I would be glad to author a patch that solves this but there should be one error used for all these fields so it is consistent. 

I would also need some guidance on how to author the patch. 

I have attached the grep results for the error messages.

Thanks,
Steve