This is returning the wrong symbol for some countries.
Egyptian pound (EGP) will return “ج.م” instead of “LE”
Topic summary
Goal: retrieve the currency symbol in Shopify Liquid when shop.currency returns only the ISO code (e.g., “USD”). Direct access via shop.currency.symbol does not work as expected.
Working approaches:
- Parse shop.money_format to extract the symbol. Implemented both in JavaScript (substring from money_format) and in Liquid (capture shop.money_format, split at “{”, take the first segment).
- Use cart.currency.symbol when a cart object is present.
- Loop through shop.enabled_currencies and output currency.symbol for the one whose iso_code matches shop.currency (the store’s primary currency). This runs once if only one currency is enabled.
Caveats and limitations:
- Symbols may differ from expectations by locale/Shopify data. Example: Egyptian Pound (EGP) can return “ج.م” instead of “LE”.
- cart.currency.symbol depends on cart context and may not be suitable outside cart pages.
- The documented Currency object appears inaccessible directly via shop.currency, prompting workarounds.
Status: No official fix confirmed. Community relies on Liquid/JS parsing or enabled_currencies iteration. Code snippets are central to the solutions. Unresolved edge cases remain for certain currencies/symbol variants.