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Update README with customized currency symbol example #1102

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Expand Up @@ -455,6 +455,12 @@ m = Money.from_cents('123', :gbp) # => #<Money fractional:123 currency:GBP>
m.format(symbol: m.currency.to_s + ' ') # => "GBP 1.23"
```

If you would like to customise currency symbols (e.g to avoid ambiguous between currencies), you can set custom symbol for specific currency as following

```ruby
Money::Currency.table[hkd][:symbol] = 'HK$'
```

## Rounding

By default, `Money` objects are rounded to the nearest cent and the additional precision is not preserved:
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