How do I override Currency symbols in Java?

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Published on 2009-05-21T17:55:27Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 5:10 UTC
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I'm trying to print prices in Turkish Liras (ISO 4217 currency code TRY) with Java.

When I do

Currency curr = Currency.getInstance("TRY");
Locale trLocale = new Locale("tr", "TR");
System.out.println(curr.getSymbol(trLocale));

the output is: "YTL".

However, the currency symbol for Turkish Lira has recently changed from "YTL" to "TL" (as can be seen on the Wikipedia page for Turkish Lira). Formatting with NumberFormat gives a similar result.

I really don't want to write yet another Currency class, especially when Java has one built-in.

Is there a way to override Java's default currency symbol for TRY to "TL"?

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