Indeed, declaring that a leading minus sign is "wrong", and parentheses
are "right", for the US locale, is not supported by common usage. Both
are widely used in different contexts, and Ubuntu does not deviate from
the upstream behavior.
We are also certainly not going to change the behavior on th
Thanks for your report!
Ubuntu uses the locale definitions provided by glibc, and this kind of
request should be made via an upstream bug report:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=glibc;component=localedata
If you file such a bug, please include a convincing justification of
