I donno why things have to be so difficult to do in magento . Displaying a currency is simple enough, you go into the admin section and modify the currency as you want. However if you want to change the symbol, then its another typical magento nightmare.
Having chosen my site to use Zim Dollar for sells, the symbol is $Z. I wanted to change that to $ZWD. So you have to go to \lib\Zend\Locale\Data
Default symbols are in root.xml and if you’re using other translations the symbols are in one of many .xml files in there. e.g if the translation was shona, the file would be sn.xml
So assuming you’re using the default language, open root.xml and search for the symbol you want to modify and change it accordingly.
If you ask me, a backend symbol modifier would be cool.
Oh, my dear magento… we’re a simple folk…
