HTML entity codes of Special Text characters getting Currency Symbols

Question

How to convert currency HTML string into the symbol in JavaScript. Here is the response from the API. For example £ need to be converted like £.

You can check my API response here:

>   getOptions: {
>             "FKP": "Falkland Islands pound (&pound;)",
>             "GBP": "Pound sterling (&pound;)",
>             "GEL": "Georgian lari (&#x10da;)",
>             "GGP": "Guernsey pound (&pound;)",
>     }


Please suggest. 
https://html-online.com/editor/

Following this link if you are click this link (just paste inside in this link  `&pound;` automatically converted pounds Symbol like £ )

What exactly do you want to convert? One currency to another or currency code to currency symbol. — AsthaUndefined, Aug 29 '17 at 05:19
still i have 56 Currency codes i want all are. Which i am using Currency code that it will be Displayed Symbol — Lavaraju, Aug 29 '17 at 05:21
Check this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19373860/convert-currency-names-to-currency-symbol — AsthaUndefined, Aug 29 '17 at 05:22
Possible duplicate of [convert currency names to currency symbol](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19373860/convert-currency-names-to-currency-symbol) — AsthaUndefined, Aug 29 '17 at 05:22
Is this what you're looking for? http://graphemica.com/%C2%A3 — Sudheesh Singanamalla, Aug 29 '17 at 05:28
But in this case in my Service response £ getting like this how can i convert this — Lavaraju, Aug 29 '17 at 05:29
HTML Entity (Named) £ Convert to £ . Not only this one Entire Currency Codes Converting how it is possible — Lavaraju, Aug 29 '17 at 05:31
There are many different currencies that use the same name, hence the common use of [*currency abbreviations*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217) such as GBP, EGP, FKP, etc. Given £5.00, how does the viewer know which pound? — RobG, Aug 29 '17 at 06:11
Possible duplicate of [Unescape HTML entities in Javascript?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1912501/unescape-html-entities-in-javascript) — Kaiido, Aug 29 '17 at 06:23
@RobG he just wants to decode the html entity in the string he gets from his API. (e.g `getOptions["FKP"]`=>`"Falkland Islands pound (£)"`). Please [mjölnir this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1912501/unescape-html-entities-in-javascript). — Kaiido, Aug 29 '17 at 06:25
@Lavaraju Your question is still unclear. Why do you need the symbol in JavaScript? Are you going to display it in HTML? — Buaban, Aug 29 '17 at 07:35
@Buban Actually from Service response i am receiving `getOptions:{ "FKP": "Falkland Islands pound (£)" }` Now I want that String in As Currency Symbol like this £ — Lavaraju, Aug 29 '17 at 10:40

Lavaraju · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-30T09:37:46.193

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Yes, Finally I got a Absolute solution. like Just i installed npm install html-entities this. After that When we are using on Particular place like that Both two are giving this

const Entities = require('html-entities').AllHtmlEntities;

const entities = new Entities();

After that console.log(entities.decode('£')) getting result Output like £

Refer this link https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-entities

edited Aug 30 '17 at 09:37

answered Aug 30 '17 at 09:31

Lavaraju

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If this is your answer, you should accept it so it can be referenced as a duplicate and also others know there's an accepted answer in search results. – RobG Aug 31 '17 at 00:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 29 '17 at 06:06

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var currency_symbol={
        "FKP": "¤",
        "GBP": "£",
        "GEL": "₡",
        "GGP": "₲",
},

Now get it by--
 currency_symbol.FKP
 currency_symbol.GBP etc

answered Aug 29 '17 at 06:06

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but in my Service response like this bellow, var currency_symbol={ "GBP": "£", "GGP": "£", }, if i am ging currency_symbol.GBP displaying £ in to text not showing Currency Symbol – Lavaraju Aug 29 '17 at 06:08
Make sure that your document is in UTF-8, and for more info you can try it on w3school.com
I will display £
otherwise, i think you should customized your response. – Kunvar Singh Aug 29 '17 at 06:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 29 '17 at 06:21

You are problably using the string in some kind of context that either escapes HTML control characters (such as &) or is not interpreted/displayed as HTML content, so the £ string will literally appear as such.

A workaround would be not to use HTML entities like £ but the actual Unicode characters for the various currency symbols:

getOptions: {
  "FKP": "Falkland Islands pound (\u00A3)",
  "GBP": "Pound sterling (\u00A3)",
  "GEL": "Georgian lari (\u10DA)",
  "GGP": "Guernsey pound (\u00A3)",
}

For your reference, see also this Unicode chart with other currency symbols.

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 29 '17 at 08:26

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You can use Intl to format, use the locale and currency code to select the format.

var number = 123456.789;

// request a currency format
console.log(new Intl.NumberFormat('de-DE', {
  style: 'currency',
  currency: 'EUR'
}).format(number));
// → 123.456,79 €

// the Japanese yen doesn't use a minor unit
console.log(new Intl.NumberFormat('ja-JP', {
  style: 'currency',
  currency: 'JPY'
}).format(number));
// → ￥123,457

// limit to three significant digits
console.log(new Intl.NumberFormat('en-IN', {
  maximumSignificantDigits: 3
}).format(number));
// → 1,23,000

take a look here for more info

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RobG

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answered Aug 29 '17 at 06:29

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Did you try it with FKP? – RobG Aug 29 '17 at 08:18
The list of currency codes includes it (i didn't test), you can find the list of codes here: https://www.currency-iso.org/dam/downloads/lists/list_one.xml – Ofer Skulsky Aug 30 '17 at 13:22
In all implementations I tested, using FKP returns the currency code (i.e. FKP), not the symbol (£), which is not what the OP wants. – RobG Aug 31 '17 at 00:50

HTML entity codes of Special Text characters getting Currency Symbols

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