Workaround for getting the local currency symbol in Mono 2.x

gistfile1.txt

	/// <summary>
	/// Gets the local currency symbol based on system language. Due to a bug in Mono 2.x, string.Format("c") will not recognize regional currency info and defaults to EN-US ($).
	/// Contact: [email protected]
	/// </summary>
	/// <seealso href="http://www.xe.com/symbols.php"/>
	/// <permission href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" />
	/// <returns>The local currency symbol.</returns>
	public static string GetLocalCurrencySymbol() {

		Hashtable symbols = new Hashtable();
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Afrikaans] = "R";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Arabic] = "د.إ.";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Chinese] = "¥";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.ChineseSimplified] = "¥";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.ChineseTraditional] = "¥";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.English] = "$";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Faroese] = "kr";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Hebrew] = "₪";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Icelandic] = "kr";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Indonesian] = "Rp";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Japanese] = "¥";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Korean] = "₩";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Latvian] = "Ls";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Lithuanian] = "Lt";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Norwegian] = "kr";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Polish] = "zł";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Romanian] = "lei";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Russian] = "руб";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.SerboCroatian] = "Дин.";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Slovak] = "Sk";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Slovenian] = "SlT";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Swedish] = "kr";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Thai] = "฿";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Turkish] = "₤";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Ukrainian] = "₴";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Vietnamese] = "₫";
		symbols[SystemLanguage.Unknown] = "";

		SystemLanguage currentLanguage = Application.systemLanguage;
		if (symbols.ContainsKey(currentLanguage)) {
			return (string)symbols[currentLanguage];
		} else {
			return "€";
		}
	}

Mind that it defaults to $ for English (no £ for UK).