title: Parse Japanese currency String with java.text.NumberFormat
body: <p>I face problems parsing a Japanese currency string in Java. It seems that the Yen symbol is not matching what java think it should be. Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>NumberFormat f = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale.JAPAN);
  String s = "¥200";
  Number n = f.parse(s);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This will throw an exception:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Exception in thread "main" java.text.ParseException: Unparseable number: "¥200"
  at java.text.NumberFormat.parse(NumberFormat.java:333)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Seems that java uses a different symbol for Yen ("\uFFE5")</p>
  
  <p>Can someone help with that?
  Thanks</p>