Run the applet below on a system that has Euro support (say, Windows NT 4.0 with the patches from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/euro.asp). Click the "Next Locale" button until you get to Italy. You'll see that the value 1.23 is shown as just <Euro> 1. It should be <Euro> 1.23. Probably a currency format is used that was intended for Italian Lire, but the Euro is valuable enough to warrant decimals.


// Test : Euro Currency Test.
// Project: JDK 1.1.7 maintenance testing
// Author : ###@###.###
// Date : 15 Jul 98

// Purpose: To test the euro currency.

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.lang.*;
import java.text.NumberFormat;
import java.util.Locale;

public class EuroTest extends Applet {

    static int MaxPartialLocales = 13;
    static String[][] PartialLocale = {
{ "de", "AT", "Austria" },
{ "de", "DE", "Germany" },
{ "de", "LU", "Luxembourg (German)" },
{ "en", "IE", "Ireland" },
{ "es", "ES", "Spain" },
{ "fi", "FI", "Finland" },
{ "fr", "BE", "Belgium (French)" },
{ "fr", "FR", "France" },
{ "fr", "LU", "Luxembourg (French)" },
{ "it", "IT", "Italy" },
{ "nl", "BE", "Belgium (Dutch)" },
{ "nl", "NL", "Netherlands" },
{ "pt", "PT", "Portugal" }
    };
    
    int CurrentLocale = 0;
    boolean PrintTested = false;
    
    Label lab0 = new Label("Country Tested:", Label.CENTER);
    Label lab1 = new Label("Locale Name:", Label.CENTER);
    Label lab2 = new Label("Formatted Number:", Label.CENTER);
    Label lab3 = new Label("Euro Currency Symbol:", Label.CENTER);
    Label lab4 = new Label("Euro Currency Input:", Label.CENTER);
    Label lab5 = new Label("Type the Euro Symbol in the Input field",Label.CENTER);
    Label lab6 = new Label("Solaris=[AltGraph+4] Windows=[Alt+0128]",Label.CENTER);
      
    Label labCountry = new Label("", Label.CENTER);
    Label labLocale = new Label("", Label.CENTER);
    Label labFormat = new Label("", Label.CENTER);
    Label labEuro = new Label("", Label.CENTER);
    TextField InputEuro = new TextField();

    Button prev = new Button(" Previous Locale ");
    Button next = new Button(" Next Locale ");
    Button quit = new Button(" Exit Test ");
    Button print = new Button(" Print Euro Symbol ");
    

    public void init()
    {
    
      Panel mainPanel = new Panel();
      add(mainPanel);
      mainPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(8,2,10,10));
    
// setFont(new Font("Times New Roman", Font.BOLD, 15));
      mainPanel.add(lab0);
      mainPanel.add(labCountry);
      mainPanel.add(lab1);
      mainPanel.add(labLocale);
      mainPanel.add(lab2);
      mainPanel.add(labFormat);
      mainPanel.add(lab3);
      mainPanel.add(labEuro);
      lab5.setFont(new Font("Times New Roman", Font.PLAIN, 10));
      mainPanel.add(lab5);
      lab6.setFont(new Font("Times New Roman", Font.PLAIN, 10));
      mainPanel.add(lab6);
      mainPanel.add(lab4);
      mainPanel.add(InputEuro);
      mainPanel.add(prev);
      mainPanel.add(next);
// mainPanel.add(print);
// mainPanel.add(quit);
      
      pict();
    }
    
     public boolean action(Event e, Object arg)
    {
      boolean doPict = true;
      
      if (e.target == next) {
        CurrentLocale++;
        if (CurrentLocale >= MaxPartialLocales) {
          CurrentLocale = MaxPartialLocales - 1;
          doPict = false;
        }
      }
      if (e.target == prev) {
        CurrentLocale--;
        if (CurrentLocale < 0) {
          CurrentLocale = 0;
          doPict = false;
        }
      }
      if (e.target == print) {
        doPict = false;
        if (!PrintTested) {
          PrintTested = true;
          print.setForeground(Color.white);
          doTestPrint();
        }
      }
      if (e.target == quit) System.exit(-1);
      if (doPict) pict();
      
      return true;
    }
    
    public void pict()
    {

      Locale myLocale;
      myLocale = new Locale(PartialLocale[CurrentLocale][0], PartialLocale[CurrentLocale][1], "EURO");
  
// Locale.setDefault(myLocale);
      NumberFormat format = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(myLocale);
      String stringWithEuro = format.format(1.23);
      // The string should have the euro symbol in it.

      // Display in the Applet window.
      labCountry.setText(PartialLocale[CurrentLocale][2]);
      labLocale.setText(myLocale.toString());
      labFormat.setText(stringWithEuro);
      labEuro.setText("\u20ac");
      
      // Clean Text Field
      InputEuro.setText("");

      // Display in the system prompt.
      System.out.println("\nCountry Tested : " + PartialLocale[CurrentLocale][2]);
      System.out.println("Locale Name : " + myLocale.toString());
      System.out.println("Formatted Number : " + stringWithEuro);
      System.out.println("Euro Currency Symbol : \u20ac");
      
      prev.setForeground(Color.black);
      next.setForeground(Color.black);
      if (CurrentLocale == 0) prev.setForeground(Color.white);
      if (CurrentLocale == MaxPartialLocales - 1) next.setForeground(Color.white);
    }
     
    public void doTestPrint()
    {
    }
}

sandy.labrasca@eng 1999-01-12
Added DMT in the program management field.
This will be in the 1.1.7_05 pre-release notes.