Incorrect localization format for numbers and money ES-MX

[Christian Servín]

Language selector for regional formats in Español; Castellano (México) sets numerical and monetary formats in an incorret way.

Right now it shows as:
numerical: 1.234.567,89
date: fri 10 jan 2014 08:20:14 CST
money: $ 20457.99

But it should be like:
numerical: 1,234,567.89
date: fri 10 jan 2014 08:20:14 CST
money: $20,457.9999

in numerical we use the , for thousand indicator and . for decimal
in money we don place a whitespace after the $ and we use the same as numerical format, with the thousand indicator, we expand the decimals to 4 digits because tax (%16) numerical operations do not work well with only 2 digits, this tax just began in 01 Jan 2010 and not all systems have been updated but they should eventualy, plus we also make monetary exchanges based on 4 decimal digit precicions like: "USD/MXN 12.9655"

see also: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/forms/v3r5m0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.form.designer.locales.doc/i_xfdl_r_formats_es_MX.html

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-45.68~precise1-generic 3.5.7.26
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 10 08:13:22 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130213)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Hi Christian, and thanks for your effort to improve Ubuntu by filing this bug report!

The affected package is actually not language-selector; it's langpack-locales. Changing accordingly.

Also, the issue has been reported previously, so I mark this bug a duplicate of bug 997248. If there is anything you think ought to be added to that other bug report, please comment on the other bug.

[Christian Servín (emileneth-h)]

The bug you mention is Reported by JoseLuisTriana on 2012-05-09

2 years and the files are the same, no one is changing this few bytes, can you tell me where to change this files then commit the changes?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Yeah, sometimes things take longer time than you think they should. In this case, though, the change does not seem to be obvious; please see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14510

To fix it to your liking for yourself you can edit /usr/share/i18n/locales/es_MX and then run

sudo locale-gen es_MX.UTF-8

And if you want to help getting it right for all Linux (not only Ubuntu) users, please get involved in the discussion on that sourceware.org bug report.