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

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Carlos O'Donell
<carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> I'll tackle Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, and El Salvador
> after dinner.
>
>> 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

For Honduras I sent an email to the National Institute of Statistics
for the Honduran government.

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

For Nicaragua I sent an email to the Institute for National
Development Information.

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

For the Republic of Panama I sent an email directly to the office of
the national government and the ministry of economy and finance.

>> 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

For Puerto Rico I sent an email to the Office of the Commissioner for
Financial Institutions (which seemed the most appropriate governmental
office).

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

For El Salvador I sent an email to the Ministry of the Economy.

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

I agree that 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.

I will take this up with CLDR, along with es_MX.

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

I think your patch is forward progress on all of the locales.

None of them seem to be using the es_ES format of "1.000.000,00"

Please checkin all of your changes with the exception of es_MX which
I'm going to take up with CLDR.

That way we've made progress on all of the other locales.

Cheers,
Carlos.