Get currency from current culture?

Question

Is there a way to dynamically retrieve current information from application culture settings? Basically, if a user has established a culture for the USA, I want to know that the currency is dollars, or if they are set in the UK, I want the pound, etc. Etc.

This means that I can send this information to PayPal when the payment is made.

Answer 1

Use the RegionInfo.ISOCurrencySymbol property. For example:

var ri = new RegionInfo(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.LCID); Console.WriteLine(ri.ISOCurrencySymbol); 

Output: "USD"

Answer 2

You can get the symbol from CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol , but I doubt that is enough; You may need to keep a separate list for each crop. Or just let the user tell you what they want to pay for (for example, they can be away from home, etc., Therefore, the PC culture in some hotel lounge is not what is on their credit card).

Answer 3

Once you have a CultureInfo ci object, you can ask, for example,

 ci.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol 

For the current culture, you simply do

 CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol 

Answer 4

 string isoCurrencySymbol = RegionInfo.CurrentRegion.ISOCurrencySymbol; 

Answer 5

Basically you can use the CultureInfo class

 CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo(UICulture); var symbol = ci.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol; 

Answer 6

  public static string GetCurrencySymbol(string currency) { if (currency == null) return ""; if (currency == "") return ""; int i = 0; var regionInfo = new RegionInfo(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.LCID); foreach (var cultureInfo in CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures & ~CultureTypes.NeutralCultures)) { if (!cultureInfo.Equals(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)) { var regionCulture = new RegionInfo(cultureInfo.LCID); if(regionCulture.ISOCurrencySymbol == currency) { //list.Add(regionCulture); regionInfo = regionCulture; } } } 

Answer 7

http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/system.globalization.regioninfo.currencynativename(VS.85).aspx

You will need RegionInfo.CurrencyNativeName, RegionInfo.CurrencyEnglishName or RegionInfo.ISOCurrencySymbol