Get the currency from current culture?

c# currency cultureinfo
leen3o picture leen3o · May 4, 2010 · Viewed 50k times · Source

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

Answer

Hans Passant picture Hans Passant · May 4, 2010

Use the RegionInfo.ISOCurrencySymbol property. For example:

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

Output: "USD"

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