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Re: Spanish locales fix
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:01:53PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:47:30AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > > The following fixes a few LC_MONETARY problems in 3 Spanish locales.
> > References for that change?
>
> Regarding the grouping change, our gnucash translator found that when he
> typed "1200" into the application, it showed "12.00,00", which is wrong.
> In Catalan, as in Spanish, numbers are grouped every thousand.
>
> Section 2.20.2 of the Catalan Style guide is an example that I've been
> able to find on the Internet.
>
> http://www.softcatala.org/projectes/eines/guiaestil/guiaestil.htm
Sounds very reasonable.
> As for the frac_digits changes, well, the Euro is divided into 100
> cents. In Spain at least we represent one and a half euro as "1.50". I'm
> pretty sure it's like this in any other Euro country, anyway. For
> reference:
>
> http://europa.eu.int/comm/economy_finance/euro/coins_features_en.htm
Are you sure you don't use the comme as the decimal delimiter?
The example above (12.00,00) indicate this, and this is as far as I know the normal
way to represent numbers and amounts in Spain.
best regards
Keld