title: Formatting currency for AED
body: <p>I'm currently doing a project for a client in Dubai, where the currency is AED. Throughout the project I used {0:c} assuming that setting the local in web-config would sort me out.</p>
  
  <p>I set the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb896001.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">culture</a> in web.config using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;globalization culture="ar-AE" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This used arabic symbols for the currency, which I assumed the client would want (turns out I assumed a bit too much). They actually wanted the currency to look like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>AED 50.00
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm not sure if this is the standard format or not. Is there a way in web.config to make it use this format. I ended up hard coding all the currencies, but I'm sure there must be a better way.</p>