JavaScript culture sensitive currency formatting

Question

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

Won

Answer 1

There is the Number.localeFormat() function, but I'm not sure it's what you're after.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb310813.aspx

Homopterous

this is an ASP.NET extension function, not native JS – Vestibule

Answer 2

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.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/NumberFormat

Bracteole

Answer 3

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?

Make

I believe the Dojo currecy formatting is based on XML data from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (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. – Volitive

Answer 4

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

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

Docs on MDN.

Latini

This might not work in a node.js environment. you might need to load 'intl' and locale files. – Buckhound