Java: Currency to Locale Mapping Possible?

Question

I have a value stored in a DB correlating to a monetary amount, say 10.0. I also have access to the Currency/CurrencyCode. How can I use NumberFormat/DecimalFormat/(other?) to format when I don't know the Locale? According to the docs it will pick a default locale which won't work with a foreign Currency.

Answer 1

JasonTrue is correct, but you can override the currency of the NumberFormat's locale:

NumberFormat numberFormat = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(locale); //the user may have selected a different currency than the default for their locale Currency currency = Currency.getInstance("GBP"); numberFormat.setCurrency(currency); numberFormat.format(amount);