Ability to select the default currency symbol.
Mark Briggs
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The default currency symbol is currently chosen according to the locale of your phone (not the language you are using).
If you longpress on the x you get a menu with a number of common currency symbols to choose from.
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S C
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I downloaded the trial version on my HTC One S, I was very impressed also loved the ₹ on the keyboard. I was so impressed I bought SwiftKey on my wife's Google Nexus 4. Unfortunately, the currency symbol on her keyboard is the £ sign. I don't get it - we're in the same "locale".
We have to have the ability to select the default currency symbol.
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Anonymous
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This issue was first posted in August 2011 and it's now May 2013 and no response apart from the unhelpful one above? I live in Australia and speak English(UK). I only have the option of English(UK) or English(US). My default currency is pounds, despite my locality being Australia.
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Anonymous
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Nexus 7 ...
This is silly. The whole world does NOT revolve around the UK or the US.
Why can't I have it set to US keyboard (so I can use the $) and have UK spelling (because they invented english and so must have it correct by default)
The keyboard changes with the language. Either English (US) or English (UK). It should not.
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Radar
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I am living in Ireland using English UK keyboard therefore £symbol is default symbol how do I change default to € (euro) symbol. This happens on both my galaxy note 2 and my galaxy tab 10.1 please change as it is very annoying to have go back and edit
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Anonymous
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My nexus 4 is apparently set to english(UK), so i get the pound symbol... I'm in Australia so obviously I want the dollar symbol.
None of the apps ive tried can change the locale and i'm not fond of rooting or anything like that. -
Caroline Tjhe
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How to check selected locale setting on my android samsung note 2?
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Soham Chatterjee
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@Sarah Reynolds - I think the currency symbol choice on Swiftkey language keyboard should not be tied to the system language locale setting. On my Samsung Galaxy S3, there is no English (India) system language option. But Indian users use Indian Rupee symbol ₹. Swiftkey does not provide an English (India) [which is based on English (UK)] keyboard as well so I'm forced to use English (UK) as my language with the pound currency symbol. But for the Hindi keyboard it is very annoying to see the pound symbol as the default currency symbol. It should be the ₹ symbol for Hindi and any other Indian languages Swiftkey is planning to add in future. Indian users would be grateful if you could offer English (India) keyboard with ₹ symbol and Indian English words. Thanks!
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Marc
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Please add the option to choose the currency symbol. I am based in middle europe but use the dollar sign more often (than the displayed euro symbol).
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Yew Kay
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Although the currency symbol is based on locale it would be better if we could choose the currency symbol. I am based in Singapore, we use English(UK) but the currency $ not £.
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P Morton
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The thing is, neither UK nor US English is the same as Canadian. Please don't ignore us!
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Muhammad Nazir Abdul Hamid
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I'm in Singapore and we use UK English with metric units and dollar signs. The default on the keyboard is the pound symbol. Highly irritating and inconvenient.
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Anonymous
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I'm in the UK but need to occasionally type in a dollar sign, how do even do this?
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Remo
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Change phone language settings to English Australia or English US and the symbol will change
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Michael Storer
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Or allow choice of keyboard separately from dictionary.
USA keyboard with UK dictionary
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Bill Rodgers commented
Am wondering what version of Android those with this issue are using?
I don't get the problem on my LG Optimus 2x with GB but do get it on my Nexus 7 using Jelly Bean.
I'm in Australia and there is no Regional setting for English (Australia) so it is set to English (UK). This causes issues with some other applications with distances shown in a mixture of km and miles. -
Not for me on a Nexus 7 Sarah.
I'm in Australia, time zone is set as such, keyboard is set to English (UK) as it should be to get correct spelling and I have that ugly pound symbol as default for currency.
We need the ability to change it or English settings for countries other than the USA or UK. -
Anonymous
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I'm in New Zealand also and had the £ symbol as default. Once I changed my default language from English UK to English New Zealand the default symbol became $.
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C hunter
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This does not work correctly. My phone and I are both in New Zealand and the default should be $ but instead it is £. Have you mistakenly added £ as the default currency in NZ? Can you please give an option to choose the default, or else fix this bug?
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Anonymous
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Additionally, we use both UK and US languages here, so the dictionary should be updated for us accordingly.
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Anonymous
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Still get pound sign when set to Spanish
