NumberFormatter has incorrect currency symbols for certain locales

[Bene Tamás]

Intl seems to be missing certain currency symbols in certain locales on ubuntu 16.04.

I noticed while doing some unit tests.
Under hu_HU locale, the expected result was 5 000 Ft
The actual result turned out to be 5 000 HUF.
It seems to be specific to this build, as this passes without problems on the CI server, and also worked fine on other distributions.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Please could you provide a set of minimal steps to reproduce the problem? For example, can you provide some PHP code that doesn't produce your expected result?

Once done, please change the bug status back to New. Thanks!

[Bene Tamás (btaens)]

Of course, sorry for the late answer.

The number formatter simply has to be set to the hungarian locale and have the currency set to HUF.

The expected result in this case is: 5 000,00 Ft
The actual result I get is: 5 000,00 HUF

I've come to suspect it is the ICU library this PHP library was built with that is missing the required locale data.

Here's a code example:

<?php
$nf = new \NumberFormatter("hu@currency=HUF", \NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
echo $nf->format(5000);

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

# cat test.php
<?php
$nf = new \NumberFormatter("hu@currency=HUF", \NumberFormatter::CURRENCY);
echo $nf->format(5000) . PHP_EOL;
?>

17.04 (7.0.15-1ubuntu3):
# php test.php
5 000,00 Ft

16.10 (7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.10.4):
# php test.php
5 000,00 Ft

16.04 (7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4):
# php test.php
5 000,00 HUF

So I took a look at 16.04 uses libicu55 while 16.10+ use libicu57. I'm guessing there is an upstream bugfix needed for src:icu.

[Nish Aravamudan (nacc)]

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/13024

[Sergio Durigan Junior (sergiodj)]

Xenial has entered ESM (Extended Support) recently. As such, I am closing its task as Won't Fix.