Customizing Currency Support

If you require additional currencies or want to remove some from the user interface, you can update the list of supported currencies in the Currencies table. If you use Japanese or Korean currencies, you must configure support so that Japanese Yan and Korean Won characters display correctly.

By default IBM® Cognos® components show only a subset of supported currencies in the user interface. Currencies are identified by their ISO 4217 currency code. The complete list of supported currencies that can be added are listed in the i18n_res.xml file in the install_location/bin directory.

Adding currencies to the IBM Cognos environment does not guarantee that your computer has a font with the required characters to display the currency. Ensure that you install the appropriate fonts to support the currency symbols you use. For example, to display the Indian currency symbol (rupee) correctly, you must install a font that contains that character. In addition, for Japanese and Korean currency symbols to appear correctly, you must install the additional fonts from the Supplementary Language Documentation disk.