The BigDecimal constructors do not take the Locale into account when parsing number strings.
This means the following code will throw a NumberFormatException
Locale.setDefault(new Locale("nl", "NL"));
String s = "2.343.298,09324798";
BigDecimal bd = new BigDecimal(s);
To parse localized strings as BigDecimal we instead need to use the DecimalFormat class
Locale.setDefault(new Locale("nl", "NL"));
String s = "2.343.298,09324798";
DecimalFormat df = (DecimalFormat) NumberFormat.getInstance();
df.setParseBigDecimal(true);
BigDecimal bd = (BigDecimal) df.parse(s);
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\\ tags: BigDecimal, DecimalFormat, Locale, NumberFormat, parse
Sometimes you need to get the currency symbol used for your currency in a different Locale. eg. In the US they use $, but a different Locale may use US$.
The Currency class can be used to not only get the currency symbol for a Locale, but also the currency symbol used for your currency in a different Locale.
Currency currency = Currency.getInstance(myLocale);
String symbol = currency.getSymbol(otherLocale);
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\\ tags: Currency, Locale, symbol
The Currency class can be used to get the currency symbol used for a particular Locale as shown in the following example.
Currency currency = Currency.getInstance(locale);
String symbol = currency.getSymbol();
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\\ tags: Currency, Locale, symbol
