Currency Pipe - not showing currency symbol £ for locale en-GB

I’m submitting a…

[ x] Bug report  ?

Current behavior

The currency pipe is not displaying the correct currency symbol for locale en-GB (united Kingdom) which should be £ (GBP) Instead it is displaying $ (USD)

01/03/2018, 11:34
$2,000.10

The date pipe is however picking up the correct date locale information ??

Expected behavior

The currency pipe should show £ (GBP)

01/03/2018, 11:34
£2,000.10

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions

Create new angular-cli project My app.module.ts

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { LOCALE_ID, NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';


@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule
  ],
  providers: [{ provide: LOCALE_ID, useValue: 'en-GB' }],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

My app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `
      <div>
      {{today | date:'short'}}
    </div>
    <div>
      {{amount | currency}}
    </div>
  `
})
export class AppComponent {
  today: Date = new Date();
  amount = 2000.10;
}

This displays

01/03/2018, 11:34
$2,000.10

but it should display

01/03/2018, 11:34
£2,000.10

I am using ng serve --locale en-GB

as described here https://angular.io/guide/i18n#i18n-pipes

Help. What am I doing wrong 😃

Environment

Angular-cli version: 1.6.8
Angular version: 5.2.0

[wmgdev]

If I set my locale to en-GB my expectation is that ‘amount: number = 10.00’ when piped through Currency Pipe would appear £10.00

In the duplicate issue it is stated… The locale will only change the formatting for the currency pipe, it will not change the currency itself…The locale will never change the currency code that you use because it makes no sense, $10 is the same value in all locales, you will just write it differently ($10 in english, 10 $ in spanish)

Is that not a bit US-centric. I agree 10 is 10 in all locales but 10 is not $10 in all locales It assumes that all numbers are based on and default to currency code $ regardless of locale. Should my locale also not set my default currency code?

As it is, if I am writing an app in United Kingdom, I have to use {{amount | currency:‘GBP’}} every time I display a number as currency instead of just {{amount | currency}} even tho I have set my locale.

[ocombe]

You need to set the currency that you want to display, and that’s the expected behavior. It’s to avoid the money to be showed in the wrong currency, because $10 !== 10£, it doesn’t have the same value. Otherwise people could forget to set the currency and get wrong values. It’s better to be explicit in this case.