Currency.getSymbol() return value (3 letter versus symbol)

Question

For a given Currency, how can you return the actual currency symbol and not the 3 letter abbreviation, regardless of the user's locale or default locale? I am aware of other formatting issues related to currency such as fractional digits and separators, but I am just focusing on the symbol here. I have to use Java 1.4. In the examples below the default locale is en_US. In my real application, the currecy code can be any valid one, not just the two I am using here as an example.
Example 1:
double num = 1234.56;
System.out.println(Currency.getInstance("USD").getSymbol() + num);
System.out.println(Currency.getInstance("EUR").getSymbol() + num);Actual Outputs:
$1234.56
EUR1234.56
Example 2:
double num = 1234.56;
NumberFormat formatter = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance();
Currency usd = Currency.getInstance("USD");
Currency eur = Currency.getInstance("EUR");
formatter.setCurrency(usd);
System.out.println(formatter.format(num));
formatter.setCurrency(eur);
System.out.println(formatter.format(num));Actual Outputs:
$1,234.56
EUR1,234.56
Desired Outputs (symbol displays for both):
$1,234.56
�1,234.56
Any suggestions? Thank you.

Answer 1

Instead of checking if the currency name is present in the locale's name, why not check if the symbol returned isn't equal to the currency code? The only way I could see this not working is if different countries have different symbols for a single country's currency (I don't know if there are any cases of this or not).
private String getSymbol(String currName) {          
  Currency currency = Currency.getInstance(currName);
  Locale[] allLocales = Locale.getAvailableLocales();
  for (int i = 0; i < allLocales.length; i++)
    String symbol = currency.getSymbol(allLocales);
if(!symbol.equals(currName))
return symbol;
return currName;