JavaScript culture sensitive currency formatting

Question

How can i format currency related data in a manner that is culture aware in JavaScript?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 09 '08 at 10:47

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Dojo has a currency formatter that's locale aware.

If you don't want to include Dojo in your project just for this function, then perhaps you can localize the currency in your back-end?

answered Sep 09 '08 at 10:47

sherbang

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I believe the Dojo currecy formatting is based on XML data from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (http://unicode.org/cldr). While Dojo will do the hard work for you, if you don't want to use it you can get the raw data from there. – georgebrock Sep 09 '08 at 10:54

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '21 at 17:46

So I know this is an old question, but incase anyone else shows up looking for similar answers, in modern JavaScript you can use

new Intl.NumberFormat('de-DE', { style: 'currency', currency: 'EUR' }).format(number)

For more info here is the reference doc.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 28 '13 at 14:57

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Number.toLocaleString (implemented in JavaScript 1.5, ECMAScript 3rd Edition)

var number = 3500;
console.log(number.toLocaleString()); /* Displays "3,500" in English locale */

answered Jan 28 '13 at 14:57

laktak

This might not work in a node.js environment. you might need to load 'intl' and locale files. – Achim Koellner Dec 17 '18 at 13:06

score -3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '08 at 11:48

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there is a Number.localeFormat function but I'm not sure it's what your after

answered Sep 09 '08 at 11:48

Christian Hagelid

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this is an ASP.NET extension function, not native JS – Jan Willem B May 12 '10 at 12:25

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