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Currency code to currency symbol mapping

Good day, in database there is table with houses for sale records. For each house record there is currency code (in ISO 4217 format) field. Is it possibly to somehow get currency symbol from that code so I could use it on presentation side ?

Thank you.

P.S. Was trying to resolve that problem setting Currency object (created by Currency.getInstance(currencyCode)) into DecimalNumberFormat setCurrency method and then format value I needed to display, but formatted value still without currency symbol.

Solution

  • You can use the Currency object's getSymbol method.

    What symbol is used depends on the Locale which is used See this and this.

    Update, Jan 2016: The links are now dead. But they were specific to Java 1.4/5 so not really relevant anymore. More details on currency formatting can be found in https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/format/numberFormat.html. The links can be found on the WayBackEngine though.