hr_HR locale file has wrong thousands separator

[Krešimir Kovačević]

/usr/share/i18n/locales/hr_HR file has wrong values for thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep.
Current value is "<U202F>" it should be "."

Affected file is in locales package.

BR,
Krešimir

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: locales 2.27-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-15.16-generic 4.15.15
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Thu Apr 19 16:21:23 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-16 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Beta amd64 (20180404)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: glibc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report. However, Ubuntu uses glibc's locale definitions, and this request really belongs there.

I did some research, and found that a plain space character was used in hr_HR previously. mon_thousands_sep was changed to "<U202F>" as a result of this bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20756

Then thousands_sep was changed accordingly as part of the fix of this bug:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10580

Please note that the patch with the latter change was written by a fellow-contryman of yours. He had previously suggested "." as you do now, but apparently accepted "<U202F>" as a proper separator for hr_HR.

I'd suggest that you get in touch with Dragan Stanojevic and discuss it with him. If the two of you agree that "." is more correct, then please file a new bug at sourceware.org.

Closing this bug.

[Krešimir Kovačević (kkovacev)]

Hi Gunnar,

Thanks on detailed info.
I will contact Dragan Stanojević as you suggested.

FYI:
My background for changing " " => "." as thousands separator:

All CNB (Croatian National Bank) reports has . as thousands separator (www.hnb.hr).
All receipts that you will see in Croatia has . as thousands separator.
All banking apps use . as thousands separator (just checked few random banks).
Just browsed through Croatian Constitution, again ".".
Croatian Ministry of Finance use ".".
And most unpopular reason that I can think of: Windows 10 (and all previous versions) has "." as thousands and "," for decimal separator (numeric and monetary). You just forced me to find pc with windows :D

I do not know from where " " as thousands separator comes from.

BR,
Krešimir

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I'll give you another argument, which the glibc folks usually listen to: CLDR uses "." for grouping and "," as the decimal point. (That's probably where Windows got it.)

Good luck! :)

[Krešimir Kovačević (kkovacev)]

Hi,

Thanks Gunnar.
Seems it worked :D
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23094

BR,
Krešimir

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Yeah, saw it, looks promising. Hopefully it will be committed soon and then included in Ubuntu 18.10.