Getting Spotlight to Perform Conversions Yosemite

When I first installed Yosemite I was able to do money and speed conversions with no difficulty at all. Now, even after disabling everything except conversion, it just won't work anymore.
Anyone got an idea on this? I haven't been able to find anything online that does anything other than simply list conversion as something Spotlight does.
Thanks.

Are you using the Finder in English?
I ask because I have found after trial and error than some conversions only work when I set the system language to English and region to United States.
When the language is set to Spanish and region to "Argentina" writing 10c or 80f in Spotlight gets no conversions, but writing 10k shows the equivalent temperature in Celcius and Fahrenheit degrees.
If I set the language to English, Spotlight recognizes 15c and 30f as temperatures, and does the appropriate conversions.
Other units like "km", liters, or joules seem to be working fine in both languages.

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