Magento – Currency symbol is not shown for different locale

magento-1.9

I am using two different stores for two languages. First store for english and other for arabic language. I am using Saudi Riyal (SAR) as a default currency.

In Admin Panel > System > Configuration > General > Locale Option when I change locale option from English (United States) to Arabic (Saudi Arabia) the currency symbol SAR is not shown on frontend.

I want to change locale option for arabic store to translate english text into arabic from csv file. But when I change Locale Option the currency symbol is not shown on frontend.

Best Answer

You need to change how the currency is being displayed in your local.

Goto this file: root/lib/Zend/Locale/Data/en.xml (For English Language)

The above file shows how the currency is being displayed in English. If you want the same format in Arabic then open ar.xml file in the same folder and copy paste whatever is there between the currencyFormat tags from en.xml to ar.xml

Copy the contents of currentFormat tags from English to Arabic. I had the same issue. The currency symbol wouldn't show up in the Arabic locale. The above steps fixed it.

Related Solutions

Magento 1.9 – English (GB) Language Pack

You can also create in your theme folder a locale folder where you create a translate.csv. At the backend you can go to system->configuratation->general->design and set the theme folder after translation (on storeview). It is one file with all your translation lines.

Magento – How to Override en.xml in zend/locale/Data with custom module

Class files located in the code pools will take precedence over files in the lib directory. To alter a locale file without directly editing the library, copy the files to the local code pool and edit the copy:

mkdir -p app/code/local/Zend/Locale/
cp -r lib/Zend/Locale/Data/ app/code/local/Zend/Locale/Data
cp lib/Zend/Locale/Data.php app/code/local/Zend/Locale/Data.php
editor app/code/local/Zend/Locale/Data/fr.xml

All locale data should now be read from the copied files.

If necessary, the edited copy can be bundled in a module.
Alternatively, the edited copy can be placed into the community code pool.

From this moment, updates of the original library locale files will not have any effect. The local edit will still be in place but the installation will no longer benefit from improvements or bug fixes.

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Related Solutions

Magento 1.9 – English (GB) Language Pack

Magento – How to Override en.xml in zend/locale/Data with custom module

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