How to place the euro symbol for currency at the end and not at the beginning of an output?

Question

I am using JSF's 2.0 standard convertor tags to format some number output as currency. But i have a little problem, I dont know how to place the euro symbol at the end of the output.

This is what I did:

<h:outputText value="#{payment.amount}">
    <f:convertNumber type="currency" currencySymbol="€"/>
</h:outputText>

The output I get is:

€15.55

But the desired output is:

15,55€

Can someone give me advice on how to solve this little issue?

Answer 1

The format is dependent on the locale of the view. The locale can be set in 2 ways.

1. Generically by the locale attribute of the <f:view> tag:

   <f:view locale="#{bean.locale}">
   

2. Specifically by the localeattribute of the <f:convertNumber> tag:

   <f:convertNumber type="currency" currencySymbol="€" locale="#{bean.locale}" />
   

It's unclear what locale you're targeting, but the use of , as fraction separator and the placement of € after the currency is typical for among others Germany (de-DE), France (fr-FR) and Portugal (pt-PT). So you need to set it as such:

<f:convertNumber type="currency" currencySymbol="€" locale="pt-PT" />

It can also be obtained from a java.util.Locale bean property.

Answer 2

Try this:

<h:outputText value="#{payment.amount}">
    <f:convertNumber type="number" pattern="###,###.###€"/>
</h:outputText>