Comment 8 for bug 1130501
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The reference:
"México: http://
Is a gobernment document for formal informational purposes and it obeys a visual design (like a powrpoint presentation), it is not intended for computer systems I'm listing the troubles with this document:
a) Numerical data is presented with one, two or three decimals, depending on the precision needed in the graph or paragraph. For day to day computational numerical presentations two digit is good enough, just the same as en_US.
b) The document arbitrarily use Monetary format without the thousand separator ",", page 22 uses the notation 833,998 mdp (millions of pesos) without the $ symbol, but like the en_US we do use the $ symbol for money
c) Commonly the percentual values are good enough with %XX.x, math is math here and in china.
Latin American numerical keyboard uses the "." for decimal and it is important for us because when we make calculations with this keyboard its we use this key for fast typing, same as in en_US
Right now the locale is like the spaniard persons use it. We can use the es_ES way (decimal"," & thousands".") only when we exchange documents with en_ES country, but it is not very common.
In México as of Jan 2010 it was introduced an increment in tax, up to 16%, this value introduces troubles while calculating accounting balances when using only 2 decimal digits, so since that date accounting and monetary systems began to use 4 digit precision. Formatted monetary values must include all 4 digits to avoid manual transcription errors or precision errors during numerical methods.
For the same reason we also use 4 digits when exchanging currencies (same as en_US): http://
This issue goes back to 2012, its time to make it right
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