Comment 6 for bug 1090288

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

On 2014-07-23 14:11, Don Schoeman wrote:
> Although the official format for currency specifies that a ","
> (comma) be used as decimal seperator the same rule does not apply to
> standard numbers.

Is there an official source supporting your claim that a dot should be used as the decimal separator in non-currency numbers?

But please note that this is more complicated. The upstream en_ZA locale actually uses dot as the decimal separator for both currency and numbers. The Ubuntu version of the locale is affected of the attached patch, which was applied as a solution of bug #887395.