[Bug localedata/23791] Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale

[keld at keldix dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23791

--- Comment #4 from keld at keldix dot com <keld at keldix dot com> ---
Looks like the CLDR def is wrong, using . as decimal point and , as thousands
operator.
Or am I wrong in reading CLDR formats?

best regards
keld

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 09:45:29AM +0000, sergi at koolpi dot com wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23791
> 
>             Bug ID: 23791
>            Summary: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
>            Product: glibc
>            Version: unspecified
>             Status: UNCONFIRMED
>           Severity: normal
>           Priority: P2
>          Component: localedata
>           Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
>           Reporter: sergi at koolpi dot com
>                 CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
>   Target Milestone: ---
> 
> In Catalan language the monetary numbers are formatted as "1.200,00???" [1] but
> acording to the locale definition they are formated as "??? 1200,00". See:
> 
> (nclone) pokoli@archy » python 
> Python 3.7.0 (default, Sep 15 2018, 19:13:07) 
> [GCC 8.2.1 20180831] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import locale
> >>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
> 'ca_AD.UTF-8'
> >>> locale.currency(1234)
> '??? 1234,00'
> 
> 
> I'm using ca_AD but it inherits the definition from ca_ES
> 
> CLDR[2]  has the following definition:
> 
> <currencyFormat type="standard">
>     <pattern>#,##0.00 ¤</pattern>
> </currencyFormat>
> <currencyFormat type="accounting">
>     <pattern>#,##0.00 ¤;(#,##0.00 ¤)</pattern>
> </currencyFormat>
> 
> [1]
> https://www.uoc.edu/portal/ca/servei-linguistic/convencions/escriptura-numerals/index.html
> [2] http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/main/ca.xml#L5548
> 
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