Hi MichaƂ, thanks for your report.

When building this feature we initially used just ISO 4217 currency
codes, but got requests from our US devels to use the "$" symbol
instead, because they are not used to see the "USD" code in websites.

But using the "$" symbol presents a problem when using this in a country
where it means a different thing. Say, "Mexican Peso" or "Australian
Dollar". In those cases, users would be expecting to be charged in their
home currency, and would be surprised to find a charge in USD in their
credit card bill.

A different option is using the "long symbol" form (eg: US$), as defined
in the unicode standard:
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/26/summary/root.html#2976

Our US devels found it more acceptable, since it's a bit more common to them to 
see US$ than USD, so we ended up using symbols or long symbols for a handful 
for currencies, and ISO codes for the rest:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-control-tower/unity-scope-click/trunk/view/head:/libclickscope/click/configuration.cpp#L60

** Changed in: unity-scope-click (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Opinion

** Changed in: unity-scope-click (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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