format currency in specific way for only one culture

Question

I am working on a multi lingual application that shows product prices in different currencies. I use the .net library to format currencies based upon culture eg.

CultureInfo current = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture;
        return value.Value.ToString("C", current);

A Russian client is not happy with how this displays so for example they want 100 руб. showing and not 100,00 р as at the moment.

Is there an easy way to modify how the price string is generated without affecting other conversions to their culture currency?

What do you mean by "other conversions"? Conversions in the same culture elsewhere in your code, or conversions in other cultures? — Jon Skeet, Apr 17 '13 at 21:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 22:06

You can use custom price format for some cultures. For example: If you have Culture table in your db. You should add CustomPriceFormat column with default value "{0:C}". In this case your can change some price formats of cultures. Then you can use like this:

var priceString = string.Format(currentCulture.CustomPriceFormat, d);

For Russian culture CustomPriceFormat is "{0:N} руб".

format currency in specific way for only one culture

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