Attaching a patch for the trusty SRU request. Changing status to "In Progress" for now, so the bug re-appears in the sponsorship queue.
** Patch added: "thousand-decimal-es_trusty.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/1074797/+attachment/4097284/+files/thousand-decimal-es_trusty.patch ** Changed in: langpack-locales (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => In Progress ** Description changed: - In Guatemala the thousands separator is a comma and the decimal - separator is a dot. Had to change in /usr/share/i18n/locales/es_GT: + trusty SRU request + ================== + + Please add a trusty task on both this bug report and bug #997248. + + [Impact] + The LC_NUMERIC formats are imported from the es_ES locale to several Latin American locales with other conventions for thousands_sep and decimal_point, which results in incorrect number formating. + + Quoting from bug #997248: "This problem is seen when I try to use the + calculator, or other gnome program that involves math, it's confusing." + + [Test Case] + Before the fix: + $ LC_NUMERIC=es_GT.UTF-8 printf "%'.2f\n" 12345,67 + 12.345,67 + + After the fix: + $ LC_NUMERIC=es_GT.UTF-8 printf "%'.2f\n" 12345.67 + 12,345.67 + + [Regression Potential] + There might exist scripts that adapts to the current incorrect behavior. Given that 14.04 was recently released, fixing the bug ought to carry greater weight. + + [Original description] + In Guatemala the thousands separator is a comma and the decimal separator is a dot. Had to change in /usr/share/i18n/locales/es_GT: from: LC_NUMERIC copy "es_ES" END LC_NUMERIC to: LC_NUMERIC decimal_point "<U002E>" thousands_sep "<U002C>" grouping 3;3 END LC_NUMERIC then sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Release: 12.04 ** Summary changed: - thousands separator and decimal separator wrong in es_GT + [SRU] thousands separator and decimal separator wrong in es_GT -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1074797 Title: [SRU] thousands separator and decimal separator wrong in es_GT To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/1074797/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
