Currency code to currency symbol mapping

Question

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.

Answer 1

You can use the Currency object's getSymbol method.

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

Answer 2

You can use Currency class and DecimalFormat class for achieve your requirement. In following example, # represents number and ¤ represents currency symbol, you can find relevant format parameters in java API doc for DecimalFormat class.

        Currency currency = Currency.getInstance("USD");

        DecimalFormat decimalFormat = new DecimalFormat("#¤");
        decimalFormat.setCurrency(currency);
        System.out.println(decimalFormat.format(234));

Answer 3

@artjomka

I was able to replicate your problem by setting my default locale to Latvia

Locale.setDefault(new Locale("lv","LV"));
Currency c  = Currency.getInstance("EUR");
System.out.println(c.getSymbol());

This gave me the output of "EUR".

However by leaving setting my locale to Uk (already my default) i gethe the sympbol for the Euro.

Locale.setDefault(Locale.UK);
Currency c  = Currency.getInstance("EUR");
System.out.println(c.getSymbol());