Re: i18n Currency issue
Bobby Quinne wrote:
I have been having an issue attempting to retrieve the currency symbol
from the currency code.
Basically I am just given the currency code(EG: USD) and I can expect
multiple currency codes to be supplied.
Using :
java.util.Currency.getInstance("USD").getSymbol();
returns USD. Not what I want.
Using :
java.util.Currency.getInstance("USD").getSymbol(java.util.Locale.US);
does return $ which is what I want.
In this instance I am clearly explicitly using Locale.US. Now from
what I can see there is no easy way to get the Locale from the
currency code.
GArlington wrote:
My guess that your problem is here:
getSymbol
<extract from java docs>
public String getSymbol()
Gets the symbol of this currency for the default locale. For example,
for the US Dollar, the symbol is "$" if the default locale is the US,
while for other locales it may be "US$". If no symbol can be
determined, the ISO 4217 currency code is returned.
Returns: the symbol of this currency for the default locale
</extract>
the method returns the symbol [if found] for DEFAULT locale, it
happens to be the one which your server is configured with, unless you
change it at run-time.
Not all locales (countries) will use the same symbol for the same
currency, for this reason locale is NOT set in the instance of
currency...
This interested me, so I took a look at the Javadocs. Here's what I found:
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Currency.html#getSymbol(java.util.Locale)>
So Locale is an *input* to the Currency instance, not an output.
Is there a way you can just hang on to the Locale up front? Use it as input
to the static getInstance() method instead of the String argument. Then
simply do not forget it.
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