[Bug localedata/22019] New: Wrong placement of monetery symbol in el_GR (negative amounts)

[Bug localedata/22019] New: Wrong placement of monetery symbol in el_GR (negative amounts)

[tzotzioy+bzl at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22019

            Bug ID: 22019
           Summary: Wrong placement of monetery symbol in el_GR (negative
                    amounts)
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: tzotzioy+bzl at gmail dot com
                CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

In el_GR.UTF-8 the field n_cs_precedes is set to 1 while p_cs_precedes is set
to 0; this leads to the following formatting of monetary amounts:

* 16,20€
* -€16,80

This goes against common public usage of monetary amounts, and n_cs_precedes
should be set to 0 just like p_cs_precedes.

I understand that I should provide a link to a proper standard (assumably from
http://www.elot.gr/default_en.aspx , the Greek Standards Organisation) but it's
difficult to provide one (web searches did not produce results, so I have
contacted them by email and am still in the
wait-for-a-reply-by-someone-in-the-know phase). I will try to update the issue
with any relevant information.

In the meantime, I will see the proper way to submit a patch as an attachment
here.

(Unless I happen to locate some pointer to a standard in the
glibc/localedata/locales/el_GR change log.)

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Wrong placement of monetery |Wrong placement of monetary
                   |symbol in el_GR (negative   |symbol in el_GR (negative
                   |amounts)                    |amounts)

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[Bug localedata/22019] Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative amounts)

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Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian at gmail dot com> changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |ASSIGNED
   Last reconfirmed|                            |2017-08-29
                 CC|                            |maiku.fabian at gmail dot com
           Assignee|unassigned at sourceware dot org   |maiku.fabian at gmail dot com
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

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--- Comment #1 from Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Christos Georgiou from comment #0)

> I understand that I should provide a link to a proper standard (assumably
> from http://www.elot.gr/default_en.aspx , the Greek Standards Organisation)
> but it's difficult to provide one (web searches did not produce results, so
> I have contacted them by email and am still in the
> wait-for-a-reply-by-someone-in-the-know phase). I will try to update the
> issue with any relevant information.

Could you find a reference to a standard?

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--- Comment #2 from Christos Georgiou <tzotzioy+bzl at gmail dot com> ---
Still waiting for an answer from http://www.elot.gr/default_en.aspx , sorry.

However, is there any documentation referencing any standard for the current
choice of different Positive/Negative formats? If not, then we can consider the
possibility that the original choice was a mistake.

NB: until a standard is located (and I am pessimistic about it) the €### and
###€ are equally common in official (i.e. state) documents, although the most
common case is not using the euro sign at all, it being implied or contained in
the title of a column. But I haven't found anywhere an inconsistent usage in
regards to the euro sign being used as a prefix or a suffix to the amount
depending on the amount sign.

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--- Comment #3 from Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Christos Georgiou from comment #2)
> Still waiting for an answer from http://www.elot.gr/default_en.aspx , sorry.
> 
> However, is there any documentation referencing any standard for the current
> choice of different Positive/Negative formats? If not, then we can consider
> the possibility that the original choice was a mistake.

Yes, I agree.

CLDR has this:

http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/main/el.xml#L5563

    <currencyFormats numberSystem="latn">
        <currencyFormatLength>
                <currencyFormat type="standard">
                        <pattern>#,##0.00 ¤</pattern>
                </currencyFormat>
                <currencyFormat type="accounting">
                        <pattern>#,##0.00 ¤</pattern>
                </currencyFormat>
        </currencyFormatLength>

I.e. the currency sign comea after the amount.

In some locales like it_CH.xml CLDR has
different patterns for positive and negative
amounts separated by a “;”:

    <pattern>¤ #,##0.00;¤-#,##0.00</pattern>

As the el.xml file does not have this, I think we can  assume that the
positive and  negative amounts use the same pattern.

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Author: Mike FABIAN <mfabian@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 17 14:54:53 2017 +0200

    Place monetary symbol in el_GR and el_CY after the amount

    CLDR uses this pattern as well.

        [BZ #22019]
        * localedata/locales/el_GR: Set n_cs_precedes to 0.
        * localedata/locales/el_CY: copy "el_GR" because it is identical.
        * stdlib/tst-strfmon_l.c: adapt test case.

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog                |    7 +++++++
 localedata/locales/el_CY |   16 +---------------
 localedata/locales/el_GR |    2 +-
 stdlib/tst-strfmon_l.c   |    4 ++--
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian at gmail dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|ASSIGNED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED
   Target Milestone|---                         |2.27

--- Comment #5 from Mike FABIAN <maiku.fabian at gmail dot com> ---
FIXED in glibc master.

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