The reference: "México: http://www.economia.gob.mx/files/diagnostico_economia_mexicana.pdf";
Is a gobernment document for formal informational purposes and it obeys a visual design (like a powrpoint presentation), it is not intended for computer systems I'm listing the troubles with this document: a) Numerical data is presented with one, two or three decimals, depending on the precision needed in the graph or paragraph. For day to day computational numerical presentations two digit is good enough, just the same as en_US. b) The document arbitrarily use Monetary format without the thousand separator ",", page 22 uses the notation 833,998 mdp (millions of pesos) without the $ symbol, but like the en_US we do use the $ symbol for money c) Commonly the percentual values are good enough with %XX.x, math is math here and in china. Latin American numerical keyboard uses the "." for decimal and it is important for us because when we make calculations with this keyboard its we use this key for fast typing, same as in en_US Right now the locale is like the spaniard persons use it. We can use the es_ES way (decimal"," & thousands".") only when we exchange documents with en_ES country, but it is not very common. In México as of Jan 2010 it was introduced an increment in tax, up to 16%, this value introduces troubles while calculating accounting balances when using only 2 decimal digits, so since that date accounting and monetary systems began to use 4 digit precision. Formatted monetary values must include all 4 digits to avoid manual transcription errors or precision errors during numerical methods. For the same reason we also use 4 digits when exchanging currencies (same as en_US): http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=USDMXN=X This issue goes back to 2012, its time to make it right See also: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/forms/v3r5m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.form.designer.locales.doc/i_xfdl_r_formats_es_MX.html http://lh.2xlibre.net/locale/es_MX/ http://www.localeplanet.com/icu/es-MX/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to langpack-locales in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1130501 Title: Spanish; Castilian (Puerto Rico) and Spanish; Castilian (United States) Regional Formats use 24-hour format by default Status in The GNU C Library: Confirmed Status in “langpack-locales” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The default format for the clock in the Spanish; Castilian (Puerto Rico) and Spanish; Castilian (United States) Regional Formats (selected in Language Support) is the 24-hour format (displays "13:30" rather than "1:30 PM"). These countries use the 12-hour format, so this default setting is incorrect. While you can change the clock format in the Date and Time Settings regardless of the current Regional Format, the clock in the Login Screen, the Guest Session, and any newly made User Account will use the default clock format (which is the 24-hour format in this case). In addition, I think it's worth mentioning that Valve's Steam gaming software is affected by this issue. Steam uses an "In-Game Overlay" that can display the current time to the user while playing a game. However, this Overlay clock uses the default clock format (again, this being the 24-hour format), even if the clock format for the current user is set to the 12-hour format. Distro: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: indicator-datetime 12.10.2-0ubuntu3.1 Localization Files: es_PR [and] es_US To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/glibc/+bug/1130501/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
