globalization

Is there a library to format the correct currency represent for a country? Example UK -£127.54 Netherlands € 127,54- USA $127.54 etc.. Some things to consider, Currency Symbol Currency symbol placement -- It can be either place before or after the digits. Negative-amount display Try the Currency Format Specifier ("C"). It automatically takes the current UI culture into account and displays currency values accordingly. You can use it with either String.Format or the overloaded ToString method for a numeric type. For example: double value = 12345.6789; Console.WriteLine(value.ToString("C",

Is there a way to do your timezone offsets on the server side, by reading something in the request over http, instead of sending everything to the client and letting it deal with it? This is more complicated but I've had to resort to this scenario before because machine and user profile settings sometimes don't match your visitor's preferences. For example, a UK visitor accessing your site temporarily from an Australian server. Use a geolocation service (e.g MaxMind.com) as suggested by @balabaster, to get the zone matching their IP (Global.Session_Start is best). This is a good match for

I have this line @String.Format("{0:C}", @price) in my razor view. I want it to display a dollar sign in front of the price but instead it display a pound sign. How do I achieve this? I strongly suspect the problem is simply that the current culture of the thread handling the request isn't set appropriately. You can either set it for the whole request, or specify the culture while formatting. Either way, I would suggest not use string.Format with a composite format unless you really have more than one thing to format (or a wider message). Instead, I'd use: @price.ToString("C", culture) It just