I am still trying to find a source on this but may have to actually get into contact with the NMISA (National Metrology Institute of South Africa) organization. Apparently they are preparing an update of the regulation to be gazetted in 2014 that will indicate that both the comma and decimal point may legally be used and since they also don't differentiate between currency and numeric values it should count for both.
-- 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/1090288 Title: The locale file for en_ZA appears to have an error Status in “langpack-locales” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/1090288/+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
