currency

GBP pound symbol appearing as uknown char in shop

Hi, For every occurrence of the pound symbol (£) in my store, I am instead seeing a '?' question mark symbol in a black diamond. Googling has resulted in suggestions of charset - mine is set as utf-8 as below... <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> I believe the store was origonally set up in Os commer...

How to add Indian currency symbol in your website

Hello All, Symbol for Indian currency was approved by the Union Cabinet on 15 July 2010. below is method to makes the rupee symbol available to everybody on the web. WebRupee is a web api for the symbol of Indian currency. WebRupee API provides a simple, cross browser method for using the Rupee symbol on your webpage, blog or...

API/Service for currency conversion of a specific date

Hi, I need an API or Service to convert a currency to Euro with the values of a specific date. Example: I have 12USD and the date 2010-08-01. This webpage offers exactly what I need: http://de.finance.yahoo.com/waehrungen/waehrungsrechner/#from=USD;to=EUR;amt=12 But I need it as an API to get the values from inside a Java-program. I fo...

regular expression for validating currency entered in a text Input in flex3

hi all, i have a text input box for entering the currency. it shud allow user to enter numbers from [0-9] and a . operator tht i did it. now it shud allow 1 to 3(1 or 2 or 3) digits before decimal and 2digits after decimal. the range is betweem 0.00 to 999.99 how can i achieve this in flex3. if user entered 3 digits he shud not b able...

Auto cancel changes in DataForm when selection is changed

Hi %username%, I wonder how you do such thing. Assume, we have MVVM CRUD app which modifies a tree (menu structure, for example). We have a view model with the menu items and two views: the first with a TreeView and the second with a DataForm. Main problems are: DataForm can not handle hierarchical data. Depending on the menu item sel...

Convert currency to decimal in PHP and JavaScript

I'm looking for the shortest/easiest way to achieve this. var savings = <?php echo $list_price ?> - discount_price; savings: 1.00 $list_price: '$10.00'; discount_price: '$9.00'; Cheers. ...

Monetary symbol (not $) in DataGridView field values

I'm building an application that is for a non-profit in Guatemala. Everything in the system is in Quetzales, which is denoted with a Q (i.e. Q100.00) is 100 Quetzales. I need to be able to modify the monetary values in any DataGridView column, but I've been unable to figure out an easy way to do it with formatting like you can with a d...

Why not use Double or Float to represent currency?

So I've always been told NEVER to do this, and this time I pose the question to you: why? I'm sure there is a very good reason, I simply do not know what it is. :-P ...

how to read a sqlite3 decimal column?

I can read a text and an int column (sqlite3_column_text, sqlite3_column_int). But does anyone know how to read in a sqlite decimal column? The decimal columns essentially hold currency values. Thanks! ...

C# creating a custom NumberFormatInfo to display "Free" when a currency value is $0.00

I need to display a currency in my ASP.NET MVC application but when the currency is 0 I would like it to display "Free" (localized of course!) instead of $0.00. So when I have something like this... Decimal priceFree = 0.00; Decimal priceNotFree = 100.00; priceFree.ToString("C"); priceNotFree.ToString("C"); The output is "$0.00" "$1...

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 Currenc...

android:Resolved:Unable to parse Currency data text obtained from UTF-8 data

Hi I am trying to fetch this xml response <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <desc c="¥99"/> but on my Android each time I get Â¥99 ,after parsing the xml, instead of correct data(i.e.¥99).Is there any way to parse this Currency data correctly.Please correct me if I am missing something. EDIT:Here is the code that is used to get x...

Format ms access currency field in a query

Hi how can I format a currency field in a query to show without the £ symbol, but still include the correct figure after the decimal point? thanks ...

Asp.net String filtering issues

I have two different asp.net web pages with gridviews. They both display numerical data as currency. One page displays the currency with the '£' symbol. Its code is as follows: <asp:Label ID="Total" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("TotalCharges", "{0:lc}") %>'></asp:Label> The other page displays its data with a $. Here is its code:...

How to track users location / region in PHP

Hello, I'm trying to get the country from which the user is browsing the website so I can work out what currency to show on the website. I have tried using the GET scripts available from: http://api.hostip.info but they just return XX when I test it. If anyone knows any better methods please share. Thanks. ...

How to add coins from different currencies

We are teaching a class where we need to teach about currency. We would like our students to add and demonstrate using different currencies across the world. (e.g. Country=US, How much does 3 nickels + 2 pennies + 3 dimes) (e.g. Country=UK, ...) (e.g. Country=JAPAN, ...) (e.g. Country=CHINA, ....) (e.g. Country=AUSTRALIA, ...) Is ther...

Any way to change rounding method for LSCurrencyFormat in ColdFusion?

ColdFusion's LSCurrencyFormat function appears to be using round-to-half-even (banker's rounding). Is there anyway to change this? I'd like to change it to standard round-half-up rounding that most people are taught in grade school. An example: LSCurrencyFormat(39.7340): $39.73 LSCurrencyFormat(39.7350): $39.74 LSCurrencyFormat(39.7360...

Negative currency number XAML

Hi, I have a little problem with the current format of my negative currency number. Here's a screenshot resuming my situation. This is how I'm using the StringFormat in my binding. (BTW, I tried only {0:C}) As expected The current settings of my computer for the negative currency number 4. The result when I'm running my application ...