Format international currencies

Question

I have an asp.net application that we are in the process of "globalizing", I have the currentculture and currentUICultre being set to the appropriate values and currencies are displaying as expected using the format currency ie.

FormatCurrency(_nPrice)

produces

$xxx.xx for en-AU and £xxx.xx for the en-GB, however we need to distinguish the currency of the value is being displayed in, other than the symbol because a lot of currencies use the dollar sign.

For example we need to display US$123.12 for the States or A$123.12 for Australia. Is there an automatic way of doing this like there is for the symbol.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you,

Answer 1

The RegionInfo contains the ISOCurrencySymbol. Since you already have the CurrentCulture, You could do the following:

string currencySymbol = RegionInfo.CurrentRegion.ISOCurrencySymbol;

// currencySymbol equals EUR for France(fr-FR) or any EU country
// returns AUD for en-AU, US for en-US, etc.