Unable to display currency characters in console window.

[sougata12]

Imports System.Globalization
Imports System.Threading

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim value As Double = 123456789.12345
Dim current As CultureInfo = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture
Console.WriteLine($"The current culture is {current}")
Console.WriteLine($"The value under the current culture is: {value.ToString("C")}")
Console.WriteLine("-------------------------------------------------")
Dim newCulture As New CultureInfo("fr-FR")
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = newCulture
Console.WriteLine($"The current culture is {newCulture}")
Console.WriteLine($"The value under the current culture is: {value.ToString("C")}")
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Module

Initially the current culture was set to English(India) see pics below. And the currency symbol was initially set to the new Indian rupee symbol (see below).






The problem is that neither the new Indian rupee symbol is getting displayed nor the Euro symbol is getting displayed when the culture is getting changed to "fr-FR". See output below:



Also if I redo the same exercise by changing the currency symbol for the current culture (en-IN) to "$" through the control panel and if instead of "fr-FR" the new culture is set to "en-US" it works fine. See screenshot below:



Also everything works fine if I try to use the new Indian rupee symbol and the Euro symbol in an excel sheet. So can someone point out why I am able to display the currency symbols in excel sheet but not when I am running a vb code? The screenshot for the excel sheet is found below:




In my last post I was suggested o use the following line:

Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.Unicode

But not the currency symbol does not get displayed despite using this extra line of code


Sougata Ghosh

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