Get the currency from current culture?

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Is there a way to get current information dynamically from the apps culture settings? Basically if the user has set the culture to US I want to know the currency is dollars, or if they have it set to UK I want to pound sterling etc... etc..

This is so I can send this information to PayPal when a payment is being made

I think paypal expects "USD" which is ISO Currency Code. – Akash Kava May 04 '10 at 08:02 — Akash Kava, May 04 '10 at 08:02

Hans Passant · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-23T10:33:53.957

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Use the RegionInfo.ISOCurrencySymbol property. For example:

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

Output: "USD"

edited May 23 '13 at 10:33

answered May 04 '10 at 07:22

Hans Passant

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This should work perfectly! I'll try it this afternoon and mark as the answer if it works :) Thanks – YodasMyDad May 04 '10 at 10:07

score 43 · Answer 2 · answered May 04 '10 at 06:15

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You can get the symbol from CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol, but I doubt this is enough; you may need to maintain a separate list per culture. Or just let the user tell you what they want to pay in (for example, they might be away from home, etc, so the culture of the PC in some hotel lounge isn't what is on their credit card)

answered May 04 '10 at 06:15

Marc Gravell

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Exactly what I was looking for but you have to import System.Globalization first. Thanks – Shadrack Orina Jan 09 '15 at 06:16

score 27 · Answer 3 · answered May 04 '10 at 06:07

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Once you have the CultureInfo ci object, you can ask such as

ci.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol

For current culture, you will simply do

CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol

answered May 04 '10 at 06:07

Fadrian Sudaman

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Not necessariy good enough as the currency SYMBOL may not be unique. – TomTom May 04 '10 at 06:19
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This will return not ISO currency symbols. For example instead of EUR you will get euro symbol like € . – Tomas Nov 18 '15 at 14:43

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 27 '11 at 10:08

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string isoCurrencySymbol = RegionInfo.CurrentRegion.ISOCurrencySymbol;

answered Oct 27 '11 at 10:08

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The ISOCurrencySymbol is the 3-letter code (e.g., USD). The symbol or sign (e.g., $) as retrieved by NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol, is NOT unique. – Doug Domeny May 03 '12 at 14:18
Just a warning that CurrentRegion does NOT come from the current UI culture, and changing the culture of the current thread will not change CurrentRegion - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.globalization.regioninfo.currentregion?view=netframework-4.8 To do that see the answer by @Hans Passant – herostwist Jul 02 '19 at 10:52
@herostwist for most app the OS setting is the one to use. So no issue. – Softlion Mar 20 '22 at 07:59

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered May 04 '10 at 06:07

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You can basically use CultureInfo class

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

answered May 04 '10 at 06:07

Jan Remunda

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Not good enough - sorry. THe currency symbol is not the currency - there is no requirement for that being unique. – TomTom May 04 '10 at 06:19

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 13 '10 at 07:55

    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;
                    }
                }
        }

O(N) search each time?? Why not make it a recursive function and do some memoization? — Henrik, Oct 18 '12 at 10:41

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered May 11 '20 at 11:20

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this worked for me.

var c = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.SpecificCultures)
      .Select(t=> new RegionInfo(t.LCID))
      .Where(t=>t.ThreeLetterISORegionName  == "USA")
      .FirstOrDefault();

answered May 11 '20 at 11:20

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 02 '10 at 13:57

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

You'll want the RegionInfo.CurrencyNativeName, RegionInfo.CurrencyEnglishName or RegionInfo.ISOCurrencySymbol

answered Jun 02 '10 at 13:57

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