[PATCH] [BZ 14510] Fix LC_NUMERIC for various es_* locales

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

Back in November 2011, Uli checked in a large change which affected the 
LC_NUMERIC settings of various es_* locales.  This change didn't 
reference any supporting documentation.

It's now being reported that various es_* locals have the wrong 
LC_NUMERIC settings for the decimal mark and thousands separator.

First I compared the es_* locales to CLDR for LC_NUMERIC settings.  This 
turned up several differences (es_DO, es_GT, es_HN, es_MX, es_NI, es_PA, 
es_PE, es_PR, es_SV).

For each of those locales I then went in search of documents, preferably 
government documents which would show usage of the decimal mark and 
thousands separator.


Mexico:
http://www.economia.gob.mx/files/diagnostico_economia_mexicana.pdf

Dominican Republic:
http://www.bancentral.gov.do/noticias/avisos/aviso2010-06-25.pdf

We can get grouping from this document from the Guatemala Government. 
Once we know grouping uses ',', then the decimal mark must be '.'.
http://www.ine.gob.gt/np/enei/ENEI2011.htm

Honduras:
http://www.ine.gob.hn/drupal/node/175
http://archivo.laprensa.hn/Negocios/Ediciones/2011/02/07/Noticias/Tasa-de-desempleo-de-Honduras-subio-a-44

Nicaragua:
http://www.bcn.gob.ni/estadisticas/economicas_anuales/nicaragua_en_cifras/2010/Nicaragua_en_cifras2010.pdf

Panama:
http://www.mef.gob.pa/portal/2011-Comunicados/2011-DISMINUYESUSTANCIALMENTEELDESEMPLEOENPANAMA.html

Puerto Rico:
http://www.periodicolaperla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3606:en-puerto-rico-la-tasa-de-empleo-cae-al-nivel-mas-bajo-en-la-historia&catid=93:analisis-economico&Itemid=300

El Salvador:
http://www.minec.gob.sv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=1:noticias-ciudadano&id=1567:encuesta&Itemid=77

All the above referenced documents show a decimal mark as '.' and the 
thousands separator as ',', which indicate glibc's localedata is wrong.


Interestingly enough, Peru which was supposed to use '.' as the decimal 
separator and ',' as the thousands separator according to CLDR seems to 
do the opposite according to these government inflation and labor reports:

http://www.bcrp.gob.pe/docs/Publicaciones/Reporte-Inflacion/2010/marzo/Reporte-de-Inflacion-Marzo-2010.pdf
http://www.inei.gob.pe/biblioineipub/bancopub/Est/Lib0909/libro.pdf

Thus es_PE is correct as-is.


This patch fixes es_DO, es_GT, es_HN, es_MX, es_NI, es_PA, es_PR and es_SV.

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