tr_TR has wrong currency

In Dapper, this causes the command

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

to hang on my computer. It gives an incomplete error message (like 'int_curr_symbol' is ou) and then stops. I am using the locale ku_TR, which copies the currency definition from tr_TR.

Denis, I subscribed you since this should be fixed in Debian, too. Are you fine with these Launchpad emails? It's easier than filing a separate Debian bug report for each issue.

 langpack-locales (2.3.12) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * locales/en_NZ: Add AM/PM definition (Malone #34262)
   * locales/tr_TR: Fix stray space in int_curr_symbol (Malone #34738)
   * locales/eo: Rename to eo_XX, since that's the format that other programs
     expect (Malone #23435)
   * locales/es_CO: Change standard paper size from A4 to US Letter. (Malone
     #27622)

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:50:55PM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34738
>
> Task: ubuntu langpack-locales
> Status: In Progress => Fix Released
>
> Denis, I subscribed you since this should be fixed in Debian, too. Are
> you fine with these Launchpad emails? It's easier than filing a separate
> Debian bug report for each issue.

No problem, but I am getting sick of web services and do not want to
request a login and authenticate. Thus if this mail does not reach
your system, I will do nothing, it is much easier this way for me ;)

> Comment:
> langpack-locales (2.3.12) dapper; urgency=low
> .
> * locales/en_NZ: Add AM/PM definition (Malone #34262)

Will do, a bug report has already been filed in the BTS.

> * locales/tr_TR: Fix stray space in int_curr_symbol (Malone #34738)

This bug report is wrong.

> * locales/eo: Rename to eo_XX, since that's the format that other programs
> expect (Malone #23435)

I will keep eo.

> * locales/es_CO: Change standard paper size from A4 to US Letter. (Malone
> #27622)

Already in Debian.

Denis

> > * locales/tr_TR: Fix stray space in int_curr_symbol (Malone #34738)
>
> This bug report is wrong.

What exactly is wrong?

In fact, the locale definition file is correct in the latest Dapper. But I still get the same error!

Hi Denis,

Denis Barbier [2006-03-20 21:25 +0100]:
> No problem, but I am getting sick of web services and do not want to
> request a login and authenticate. Thus if this mail does not reach
> your system, I will do nothing, it is much easier this way for me ;)

That's fine, you are already known to our bug tracker, and using it
like Debian's BTS (purely with email) works fine.

> > * locales/tr_TR: Fix stray space in int_curr_symbol (Malone #34738)
>
> This bug report is wrong.

Ok, thanks, will sort that out with Erdal then.

> > * locales/eo: Rename to eo_XX, since that's the format that other programs
> > expect (Malone #23435)
>
> I will keep eo.

So you fixed the locale name in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED instead? If
the rather nonsensical _XX can be avoided, I'd prefer to do that, too.

Nice.

Thank you,

Martin
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Reopening

So the space is correct, localedef expects four characters. However, with the original sequence, localedef complains with

  LC_MONETARY: value of field `int_curr_symbol' does not correspond to a valid name in ISO 4217

And indeed there is no 'TRY' defined in /usr/share/i18n/locales/iso-4217.def, just

  DEFINE_INT_CURR("TRL") /* Turkish Lira */

So is "TRL" the correct Turkish currency?

No, the currency in Turkey has changed in 2005. It was "Turkish Lira" (TRL), now it is "New Turkish Lira" (TRY). 1 TRY equals 1.000.000 TRL.

You can see this on http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/popstds/currencycodeslist.html#SZ :
TURKEY New Turkish Lira TRY 949

So maybe the iso-4217 list in Ubuntu is out of date.

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:48:05AM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Denis Barbier [2006-03-20 21:25 +0100]:
> > No problem, but I am getting sick of web services and do not want to
> > request a login and authenticate. Thus if this mail does not reach
> > your system, I will do nothing, it is much easier this way for me ;)
>
> That's fine, you are already known to our bug tracker, and using it
> like Debian's BTS (purely with email) works fine.

Cool.

> > > * locales/tr_TR: Fix stray space in int_curr_symbol (Malone #34738)
> >
> > This bug report is wrong.
>
> Ok, thanks, will sort that out with Erdal then.

As said by Erdal, Turkish currency is TRY, localedef needs to be
updated. But I do not know why locales generation hangs, this
is not normal.

> > > * locales/eo: Rename to eo_XX, since that's the format that other programs
> > > expect (Malone #23435)
> >
> > I will keep eo.
>
> So you fixed the locale name in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED instead?

Right. IIRC I initially chose eo_XX to be compatible with Mandrake.
As explained in the changelog, I met Goto Masanori at debconf 5
and he told me that he prefers eo. I had no strong feeling about
this and switched to eo.

> If the rather nonsensical _XX can be avoided, I'd prefer to do that,
> too.

FWIW, ISO 3166 specifies that AA, QM-QZ and XA-XZ codes are reserved
for private use, this is why eo_XX may have a justification, at least
IMHO ;)

Denis

>
> As said by Erdal, Turkish currency is TRY, localedef needs to be
> updated. But I do not know why locales generation hangs, this
> is not normal.
>

After the last update, I have no more serious problems. Maybe the hanging
was not because of that, it's gone anyway.

Erdal

So, the currency needs to be updated in iso-codes, adding task.

Package ready, will upload after flight-6 freeze.

Fixed package prepared, will upload after flight-6 freeze.

Fixed langpack-locales package prepared (re-added the space); with the fixed belocs-locale-bin package, tr_TR[.UTF-8] now works like charm. :)

 belocs-locales-bin (2.3.5-5ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * locale/iso-4217.def: Add "New Turkish Lira" (TRY). Closes: LP#34738
   * sbin/locale-gen: Do not completely fail if a single locale cannot be
     generated; just print 'failed' and continue. Closes: LP#33123.

 iso-codes (0.49-1ubuntu2) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * iso_4217/iso_4217.xml: Add "New Turkish Lira" (TRY, ISO-Code 949).
     Closes: LP#34738

 langpack-locales (2.3.13) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * locales/tr_TR: Re-add trailing space in int_curr_symbol, it is correct.
     Closes: LP#34738
   * Fix Catalan locales (sync with Debian), thanks to Robert Millan.
     - Add Euro support to ca_FR and ca_AD.
     - Remove obsolete ca_FR@euro and ca_AD@euro.
     - Add ca_IT.
     - List them all in SUPPORTED file.
     - Closes: LP#37011