How can i get currency symbols from currency code in iphone?

Question

I have get currency code (Eg: USD, EUR, INR) from webservice response. I need to show the currency symbols for the corresponding currency code. If the currency code is USD,

Answer 1

This code is what you are looking for though not very efficient because of loop for locales. Still it works correctly for all currency codes, not just for eur or usd. Hope this will help you.

- (NSLocale *) findLocaleByCurrencyCode:(NSString *)_currencyCode
{
        NSArray *locales = [NSLocale availableLocaleIdentifiers];
        NSLocale *locale = nil;

        for (NSString *localeId in locales) {
                locale = [[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:localeId] autorelease];
                NSString *code = [locale objectForKey:NSLocaleCurrencyCode];
                if ([code isEqualToString:_currencyCode])
                        break;
                else
                        locale = nil;

        }

        return locale;
}

- (NSString *)findCurrencySymbolByCode:(NSString *)_currencyCode
{
        NSNumberFormatter *fmtr = [[NSNumberFormatter alloc] init];
        NSLocale *locale = [self findLocaleByCurrencyCode:_currencyCode];
        NSString *currencySymbol;
        if (locale)
                [fmtr setLocale:locale];
        [fmtr setNumberStyle:NSNumberFormatterCurrencyStyle];
        currencySymbol = [fmtr currencySymbol];
        [fmtr release];

        if (currencySymbol.length > 1)
                currencySymbol = [currencySymbol substringToIndex:1];
        return currencySymbol;
}

Use it this way:

NSString *currencySymbol = [self findCurrencySymbolByCode:currencyCode];