Re: Getting rid of leading US from ofbizCurrency macro

Posted by David E Jones-2 on Aug 09, 2006; 11:18pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Getting-rid-of-leading-US-from-ofbizCurrency-macro-tp141284p141288.html


Probably the locale. The same currency will display differently in  
different locales with most such libraries, even the ones that come  
with the standard Java API.

-David


On Aug 9, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Leon Torres wrote:

> Well I had to dig in and look at UtilFormatOut.formatCurrency.
>
> It's using the ICU4j formatter to generate the currency.  The  
> strange thing is when I write a test class to compare the  
> difference between that NumberFormatter and the default Java one, I  
> don't see a difference.  They both print "$10.00".   But somehow in  
> my ofbiz the number comes out "US$10.00".
>
> Anyone know why this is?   I found a currency format string in  
> general.properties "##0.00" but playing with this doesn't fix the  
> problem.
>
> What is causing ICU4j to print "US$10.00" instead of "$10.00" like  
> it's supposed to?
>
> - Leon