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Velocity Number format issue

We are using velocity as template. We use NumberTool to format number in vm files.

For example

$!{NUMBER.format('#,##0',$!{amount})} 円

Expected output is for example 9,900円 . It works in almost 99.9999% of the cases. But sometimes for example once in a few months it displays as 9.900円 in our web page.

Does anyone face same problem ? Is there any bug in NumberTool related to Locale or some other issue?

Solution

  • The decimals separator can depend on the locale. To avoid this, you can configure a specific locale to the number tool. For instance, when using a tools.xml file:

     <tool key="number" class="org.apache.velocity.tools.generic.NumberTool" locale="en_US"/>

    Or you can specify the Locale using Java:

    numberTool.setLocale("en_US")