[Bug localedata/187] wrong grouping and decimal point in tr_TR LC_NUMERIC

["nilgun at belgeler dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sources dot redhat dot com>]

------- Additional Comments From nilgun at belgeler dot org  2004-08-14 07:44 -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> I've asked the original locale author Keld Simonsen to comment
> on this change request.  I aldo tried to reach an earlier
> contributor, "Nilg~n Belma Bug~ner", but his email address bounced.
> 

The grammar rules published by the Turkish Language Institution (TDK)
make no distinciton between monetary and numerical representations.
However the monetary representation has gained public recognition 
because of the stress placed on this matter by the Turkish
Ministry of Finance. Nevertheless this representation is not as
well defined as in the documentation of th GNU C libraries
(probably because the related rule set was prepared during the pre-IT era).

On the other hand, due to the international nature of the scientific 
publications, the numerical representation has not been as widely 
accepted as the monetary representation. The fix I have sent you uses 
the publically accepted form of the rules that were left unspecified 
by the Turkish Language Institution.

It is possible not to make any grouping using the strfmon function. 
Therefore the same tersary grouping can be used in the numerical 
representation as in the monetary representation. The substitution of 
period with comma is possible by assigning "C" to the LC_NUMERIC variable. 
Consequently the current number representations adopted by the Turkish
Language Institution can be used both in the numerical and in the monetary 
representations, provided that their grammar rules stay the same 
(if not changed in the grammar rules currently being revised).

In order to end the current debate, the patch sent in can be assumed 
valid a priori.



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