[SOLVED] Decimal separator is incorrect for es_MX

Joel · 2012-10-02 04:12:06

Hello!

I just notice that my decimal separator is wrong...

Current: , (coma)
Correnct: . (dot)

How to change it?

Last edited by Joel (2012-10-03 00:09:51)

DSpider · 2012-10-02 06:38:23

https://www.google.com/search?q=es_MX+decimal

Alber · 2012-10-02 11:43:30

Try command locale.
Maybe changing LC_NUMERIC and LC_MONETARY to another language in /etc/locale.conf, it works as you want.
Don't forget launch locale-gen.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale

karol · 2012-10-02 13:10:51

How locale works in Arch: https://plus.google.com/114015603831160 … zKCcnTWDpa

If you can't fix it yourself, post the output of 'locale' and 'locale -a'.

Joel · 2012-10-02 15:20:07

locale

LANG=es_MX.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="es_MX.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

locale -a

C
es_MX.utf8
POSIX

karol · 2012-10-02 15:23:14

Your locale settings look OK, seems it's the bug DSpider was pointing to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/995243

Joel · 2012-10-02 15:29:22

Yes, but I found a solution here: http://www.ubuntu-es.org/node/167684#.UGsGSbRH-jg

1.- Needed to edit the file: /usr/share/i18n/locales/es_MX
2.- Look for the line:

LC_NUMERIC
copy "es_ES"
END LC_NUMERIC

3.- Change that line to:

LC_NUMERIC
decimal_point "<U002E>"
thousands_sep "<U002C>"
grouping 3;3
END LC_NUMERIC

3.- Later I run:

locale-gen

4.- Now, works as expected

Maybe, the Arch dev can patch this file for the new and fresh installations

GogglesGuy · 2012-10-02 16:44:01

Joel wrote:

Maybe, the Arch dev can patch this file for the new and fresh installations

That won't happen, this needs to be fixed upstream.

DSpider · 2012-10-02 16:46:28

Good job.

Don't forget to mark it as solved (by editing the first post) so that other people (including yourself sometimes) may find useful.

By the way, pacman says that it belongs to glibc, so look out for updates to the glibc package, because it will rewrite that file.

$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/i18n/locales/es_MX 
/usr/share/i18n/locales/es_MX is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4

Last edited by DSpider (2012-10-02 16:47:11)

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[SOLVED] Decimal separator is incorrect for es_MX

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