lt_LT should use the Euro

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Thanks for your report, Marius.

The collection of locales in upstream glibc is the base for the locales in the Ubuntu repository. For that reason, and before making this change in Ubuntu, can you please file an upstream bug as well and let us know its URL.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=localedata&product=glibc

Indeed still wrong upstream as well: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=localedata/locales/lt_LT;hb=HEAD

The upstream bug about lv_LV switching to the Euro is interesting: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16374.

The situation with lt_LT is very similar, only we got the Euro one year later. Same legacy 8-bit charset (ISO-8859-13 has no Euro), but everyone uses UTF-8 now, right?

Anyway, the upstream bug for lv_LV is still unresolved, despite a long discussion that seemed to end with a consensus and a posted patch.

I'll file a bug for lt_LT.

Filed https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18953

The patch attached to bug #1491880 has been modified to also include a fix of this bug.

This bug was fixed in the package langpack-locales - 2.13+git20120306-21

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langpack-locales (2.13+git20120306-21) wily; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/ubuntu-ln_CD-new_locale.patch:
    Addition of the ln_CD locale (LP: #1491880).
  * debian/patches/ubuntu-lt_LT-currency.patch:
    Changed to currency EUR/€ (LP: #1494715).

 -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Sep 2015 19:46:00 +0200

This bug was not fixed.
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I wrote these commands in terminal:

$ LC_ALL='lt_LT.utf-8' locale -k currency_symbol
currency_symbol=“Lt“

$ LC_ALL='lt_LT.utf-8' locale -k int_curr_symbol
int_curr_symbol=“LTL “

It means that it was fixed in wily (the current development version), and will affect Ubuntu 15.10+.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch)
Release: 15.10
Codename: wily

Strange. Can't reproduce the problem.

$ dpkg-query -W locales
locales 2.13+git20120306-21
$ export LC_MONETARY=lt_LT.UTF-8
$ locale -k currency_symbol
currency_symbol="€"
$ locale -k int_curr_symbol
int_curr_symbol="EUR "

Did you update your system successfully?

Can you try to generate the locale again:

sudo locale-gen lt_LT.UTF-8

$ dpkg-query -W locales
locales 2.13+git20120306-21
$ export LC_MONETARY=lt_LT.UTF-8
$ locale -k currency_symbol
currency_symbol="Lt"
$ sudo locale-gen lt_LT.UTF-8
Generating locales...
  lt_LT.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
$ locale -k currency_symbol
currency_symbol="Lt"

Hmm.. That did not regenerate the locale, since it claims to have been generated recently. Can you try to run:

sudo locale-gen --purge

which will remove and regenerate all the enabled locales on your system.

If that doesn't help either, can you try to reboot?

Ok, This bug was fixed.

$ locale -k currency_symbol
currency_symbol="€"
$ locale -k int_curr_symbol
int_curr_symbol="EUR "