International Currency Format

This library and database were developed from our own needs ... we were developing internationalized web based ecommerce applications and needed a low overhead, portable, cross platform library that would allow us to easily and correctly format and display international currencies on-the-fly.

We started by purchasing the official ISO 4217 standards specification rather than relying on freely available and often inaccurate copies found through out the web.

The currency format remains active until you explicitly load a different format. Thus you could load the format for US dollars for the life of your program. Or you could load a default format of say Pounds Sterling and on the fly change the currency profile to Euro dollars.