Bug 22019

(In reply to Christos Georgiou from comment #0)

> I understand that I should provide a link to a proper standard (assumably
> from http://www.elot.gr/default_en.aspx , the Greek Standards Organisation)
> but it's difficult to provide one (web searches did not produce results, so
> I have contacted them by email and am still in the
> wait-for-a-reply-by-someone-in-the-know phase). I will try to update the
> issue with any relevant information.

Could you find a reference to a standard?

Still waiting for an answer from http://www.elot.gr/default_en.aspx , sorry.

However, is there any documentation referencing any standard for the current choice of different Positive/Negative formats? If not, then we can consider the possibility that the original choice was a mistake.

NB: until a standard is located (and I am pessimistic about it) the €### and ###€ are equally common in official (i.e. state) documents, although the most common case is not using the euro sign at all, it being implied or contained in the title of a column. But I haven't found anywhere an inconsistent usage in regards to the euro sign being used as a prefix or a suffix to the amount depending on the amount sign.

(In reply to Christos Georgiou from comment #2)
> Still waiting for an answer from http://www.elot.gr/default_en.aspx , sorry.
> 
> However, is there any documentation referencing any standard for the current
> choice of different Positive/Negative formats? If not, then we can consider
> the possibility that the original choice was a mistake.

Yes, I agree.

CLDR has this:

http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/main/el.xml#L5563

    <currencyFormats numberSystem="latn">
    	<currencyFormatLength>
    		<currencyFormat type="standard">
    			<pattern>#,##0.00 ¤</pattern>
    		</currencyFormat>
    		<currencyFormat type="accounting">
    			<pattern>#,##0.00 ¤</pattern>
    		</currencyFormat>
    	</currencyFormatLength>

I.e. the currency sign comea after the amount.

In some locales like it_CH.xml CLDR has
different patterns for positive and negative
amounts separated by a “;”:

    <pattern>¤ #,##0.00;¤-#,##0.00</pattern>

As the el.xml file does not have this, I think we can  assume that the
positive and  negative amounts use the same pattern.

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commit 56a752ab6aa89088a787d852358cdd8f0a0d57f1
Author: Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 17 14:54:53 2017 +0200

    Place monetary symbol in el_GR and el_CY after the amount
    
    CLDR uses this pattern as well.
    
    	[BZ #22019]
    	* localedata/locales/el_GR: Set n_cs_precedes to 0.
    	* localedata/locales/el_CY: copy "el_GR" because it is identical.
    	* stdlib/tst-strfmon_l.c: adapt test case.

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog                |    7 +++++++
 localedata/locales/el_CY |   16 +---------------
 localedata/locales/el_GR |    2 +-
 stdlib/tst-strfmon_l.c   |    4 ++--
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

FIXED in glibc master.