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Sofi Software LLC
Sofi Software LLC

Reputation: 3939

Android NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance for es_US returns incorrect values

    Locale locale = Locale.getDefault();
    final NumberFormat numberFormat = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(locale);

Locale is es_US

numberFormat is

 java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols[currency=USD,currencySymbol=$,decimalSeparator=,,digit=#,exponentSeparator=E,groupingSeparator=.,infinity=∞,intlCurrencySymbol=USD,minusSign=-,monetarySeparator=,,NaN=NaN,patternSeparator=;,perMill=‰,percent=%,zeroDigit=0]

The decimalSeparator and groupingSeparator are wrong, they should be . and , respectively. Is this a bug in Android?

EDIT:

    DecimalFormatSymbols decimalFormatSymbols = ((DecimalFormat) numberFormat).getDecimalFormatSymbols();

    if ("US".equalsIgnoreCase(locale.getCountry())
            && "es".equalsIgnoreCase(locale.getLanguage())) {
        decimalFormatSymbols.setMonetaryDecimalSeparator('.');
        decimalFormatSymbols.setGroupingSeparator(',');
    }

    ((DecimalFormat) numberFormat).setDecimalFormatSymbols(decimalFormatSymbols);

This is one way to "fix" it, but it really seems like there should be a more locale friendly way to do it.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1655

Answers (1)

Sofi Software LLC
Sofi Software LLC

Reputation: 3939

To answer my question; yes, this is a known bug in Android:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38844

Supposedly fixed post 4.2, but here we are at 4.2.2

Upvotes: 2

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