First of all, the locale file in question confuses people because the comments are incorrect. I think it may have been updated at some point and the comments weren't updated.
That being said, officially, the decimal seperator for South Africa is actually a comma and not a full stop, for example the following amount is how currency should appear: R143 012,12 The problem is that few South African's actually use it this way as even our most popular accounting packages uses .'s, as does our calculators, as does invoice slips, etc. Although irritating at the least (and causing all kinds of software related headaches at the most) this then is actually not a bug. What would help clear up at least some confusion is if the comments could reflect the actual value, e.g.: % "." mon_decimal_point "<U002C>" Should be: % "," mon_decimal_point "<U002C>" Please see this very helpfull blog post on South Africa's official currency/number format: http://www.sadev.co.za/content/how-correctly-format-currency-south-africa -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1090288 Title: The locale file for en_ZA appears to have an error To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/1090288/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
