Suppressing currency symbol "CAD"?

[Adam Funk]

On 2010-05-14, Tarver wrote:

> Hi, I am new to GnuCash and this list, and I am very excited about learning
> GnuCash.  :)
>
> I am in Canada, but I keep my Linux box set the USA locale because more
> software just works that way.  I have set Preferences:Reports:Default Report
> Currency:Choose to "CAD" Canadian dollars.  When I run a report in GnuCash,
> every amount is prepended with the currency code "CAD" which is true but
> distracting.  Is there a way to suppress the display of "CAD", or make it
> just a dollar sign?  All of my accounts are in Canadian dollars, although I
> will have some USD expenses this summer.

You could try setting the locale and then launching gnucash from the
shell:

$ export LANG=en_CA.utf8
$ gnucash