LSCurrencyFormat not UK friendly??

[csteinhilber]

I have the following code:

<CFSET origlocale = SetLocale(&quot;English (UK)&quot;)>

<CFOUTPUT><P>Cost in UK: <b>#LSCurrencyFormat(100000, &quot;local&quot;)#</b><BR></CFOUTPUT>

<CFSET templocale = SetLocale(origlocale)>

But the output returns
Cost in UK: 100000

not
Cost in UK: ₤100,000.00
as expected.

In fact, even

#LSCurrencyFormat(100000, "international")#

doesn't produce GBP100,000.00 as the docs suggest.

Has anyone gotten this to work?
I'm running CF 5.0.


Hope it helps,
-Carl

 

[SidianConsulting]

I found a technote about this:

http://www.macromedia.com/v1/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=22404&Method=Full

-Tek

 

[csteinhilber]

Tek,
Thanks much. I found that technote too.
Unfortunately, I'm running on Solaris... so it doesn't apply. :-(

All other locales work perfectly, except for "English (UK)".

Sounds like a true bug.
Hope it helps,
-Carl

 

[gelgaard]

I have also had trouble getting the formatting functions to work properly when displaying information from our offices where dollars are not the local currency. I invented my own custom tags for accomplishing this. They aren't that hard to write and they will work on any platform. Below is an example:

<cf_MyUKFormat thenumber=&quot;10000000.89&quot;>

Listing from MyUKFormat.cfm

<cfoutput>
&pound;#Trim(NumberFormat ATTRIBUTES.thenumber, &quot;999,999,999,999.00&quot)#
</cfoutput>