Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-10
Severity: normal
The current strfmon() in glibc do not format currency correctly and in
accordence with the POSIX standard. This has been fixed in glibc CVS.
These are the relevant patches:
(libc/)
2004-01-01 Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* stdlib/strfmon.c: Make formatting of left-justified currency
values match the POSIX standard. When using format string
"[%-14#5.4n]" to print -123.45, the result should be
"[-$ 123.4500 ]", not "[-$123.4500 ]".
2003-11-30 Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* stdlib/strfmon.c: Correct formatting of international currency
values. The international currency formatting should prefer the
int_* values if they are set for a locale, and use the domestic
values if the int_* values are unset.
(libc/localedata)
2004-01-01 Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tst-fmon.data: Add simple test to check left justified currency
values in the C locale.
2003-11-30 Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tst-fmon.sh: Allow quotes around the result string, to make it
easier to see important whitespace.
* tst-fmon.data: Likewise.
* tst-fmon.sh: Clean up output, unify capitalization and output order.
* tst-fmon.c: Likewise.
* tst-fmon.data: Add test for international currency formatting.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_n01y12: Add definitions for int_* fields.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_n02n40: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_n10y31: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_n11y41: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_n12y11: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_n20n32: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_n30y20: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_n41n00: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_y01y10: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_y02n22: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_y22n42: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_y30y21: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_y32n31: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_y40y00: Likewise.
* tst-fmon-locales/tstfmon_y42n21: Likewise.
* locales/en_US: Correct spacing for international
currency formatting, now that strfmon() works better.
* locales/ja_JP: Correct currency position and
spacing now that strfmon() work better.
2003-06-15 Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tst-fmon.c (main): Remove unused variable 'monval'.
* tst-fmon.sh: Make sure all tests are executed before an error
code is reported to make.
* tst-numeric.sh: Likewise.
2003-04-30 Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* tst-fmon.c: Report name of locale if setlocale() fails.
* tst-numeric.c: Likewise.
* tst-fmon.sh: Ignore lines starting with hash '#' in the data file.
* tst-numeric.sh: Likewise.
Please include these patches in the Debian version of glibc. I assume
you are able to extract the patches from CVS, but let me know if you
want me to do it and submit the patch here.
