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How to change default and internal currency in self-hosted Odoo or OpenERP

If you wish to use Odoo in a single-currency environment, you will find issues changing the currency in the Odoo interface itself. If you have a self-hosted solution of Odoo or OpenERP, you already have unprecedented control over the system, unlike the cloud-based solution from Odoo. This means that you can very easily fix the issue by hacking the database that Odoo is relying on. Even in a multi-currency environment, you can use the same trick to change the global default currency - the fix is very clean for any environment - there is just an extra step to update the currency rate settings. Even in the latest version of Odoo, we still face the ridiculous bug that Odoo internally ALWAYS uses EUR (Euro) as the internal currency. This has created many problems for many users wanting to use a different currency. Despite being set to a different currency from the Odoo interface, the eCommerce site, reports, accounting, etc are still shown using EUR and the Euro symbol, creating confusio