How to add or change currency symbol in magento

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Here i want to learn you that how can we add the Indian Rs currency symbol in magento. I searched on internet but not found proper answer. so i want to write this article for this.

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 Here is the steps to change symbol

1. Please open the FTP or cpanel
2. go to this directory lib/Zend/Locale/Data
3. Please open file name root.xml
4. here are the list of all the currency symbols. you can change any currency symbols from here
5. write the below code inside this file.
for indian RS go to line no 2867 or find "<currency type="INR">"  text

<currency type="INR">
        <symbol>RS</symbol>
</currency>

Replace to

<currency type="INR">
      <symbol>&#x20B9;</symbol>
</currency>

6. Please clear the catch from the backend and refresh the site you can see the set currency symbol on your site.

Hope this article will help you

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