[Bug 1090288] Re: The locale file for en_ZA appears to have an error

[Colin Watson]

Fabio: It would be nice if, when triaging bugs, you at least took the
time to look up which package owns a given file!  The bug report
specifically refers to /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_ZA, which is owned by
the locales binary package, built by langpack-locales.

** Package changed: console-setup (Ubuntu) => langpack-locales (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  The locale file for en_ZA appears to have an error

Status in “langpack-locales” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I suspect there is a problem with the locale for South Africa. The
  locale file for en_ZA located in /usr/share/i18n/locales has the
  following settings:

  LC_Monetary
  .....

  % "."
  mon_decimal_point       "<U002C>"

  % ","
  mon_thousands_sep       "<U00A0>"
  mon_grouping            3;3
  positive_sign           ""
  ....

  
  LC_NUMERIC
  % "."
  decimal_point           "<U002C>"

  % ","
  thousands_sep           "<U00A0>"
  grouping                3;3
  END LC_NUMERIC

  
  - Unicode character <U002C> is for a comma "," and not a full stop "." It should be <U002E>
  - Unicode character <U00A0> is for a non-breaking space " " and not a comma "," . If it's meant to be a comma it should be <U002C>

  South Africa is on the metric system and uses a "." for decimal
  places. The above issue results in the regional settings having a
  comma in the decimal place and causes a number of errors when trying
  to use other software packages.

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