System.Globalization.RegionInfo missing ThreeLetterISORegionName, ThreeLetterWindowsRegionName, and CurrencySymbol

[Hunter Morris]

Compiling and running the code attached (e.g. "mcs CurrencySymbolFail.cs") produces:

   Name: GB
   DisplayName: United Kingdom
   EnglishName: United Kingdom
   IsMetric: True
   ThreeLetterISORegionName:
   ThreeLetterWindowsRegionName:
   TwoLetterISORegionName: GB
   CurrencySymbol:
   ISOCurrencySymbol: GBP

Note that some fields are empty, including CurrencySymbol which I expected to be "£". There is a (very old) discussion on the Novell bug tracker which describes a similar issue:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417832

I do not have any experience building Mono packaging, but here is the output of my setup:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

$ sudo apt-cache policy libmono-corlib2.0
libmono-corlib2.0-cil:
  Installed: 2.10.5-1
  Candidate: 2.10.5-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.10.5-1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ sudo apt-cache policy libmono-corlib4.0
libmono-corlib4.0-cil:
  Installed: 2.10.5-1
  Candidate: 2.10.5-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.10.5-1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[John Church (sleeveroller)]

Tested this with Precise Pangolin and the problem persists. Out of curiosity I ran the same code on Windows XP with MS .NET 3.5 and got the following output:

   Name: GB
   DisplayName: United Kingdom
   EnglishName: United Kingdom
   IsMetric: True
   ThreeLetterISORegionName: GBR
   ThreeLetterWindowsRegionName: GBR
   TwoLetterISORegionName: GB
   CurrencySymbol: £
   ISOCurrencySymbol: GBP