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Currency symbol other than the good ol $
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From
09/02/2006 20:41:33
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
To
09/02/2006 20:31:41
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01095342
Message ID:
01095344
Views:
12
>I'm in my first foray into international stuff and I have this problem with the currency symbol.
>
>I set regional options (OS) to English UK and saw it show the £ as the currency symbol.
>Then I re-booted.
>Then I SET CURRENCY TO '£' in my program.
>
>Some numeric fields in my report are:
>- 'formatted as "currency", giving a @$ in their format box
>- have a floating dollar sign defined too.
>
>Yet when these print they give the trusted dollar sign instead of the £!?!?
>
>What do I have to do to get a £ to print?
>
>Thanks in advance

Perhaps there is a simpler way, but you might just write your own UDF that returns the amount formatted as a text.
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