Bug #78056 [Com]: Wrong currency format for nl_BE with money_format

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78056&edit=1 ID: 78056 Comment by: sjon@php.net Reported by: wesley at weha dot be Summary: Wrong currency format for nl_BE with money_format Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Strings related Operating System: Centos 7.6 PHP Version: 7.3.5 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: I've reported this to glibc as https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24614 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-05-23 15:04:37] requinix@php.net Oh yes, forgot glibc does locale its own way... Yup, looking at the glibc source https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=tree;f=localedata/locales;hb=refs/heads/master they have nl_BE copying from nl_NL which has n_sign_pos=2. So it's an upstream bug. https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-05-23 14:45:43] sjon@php.net I actually have the exact same output on my completely up-to-date machine. It seems this is controlled by glibc, and I have 2.29-1 installed which is the latest version. I can confirm requinix's observation (looking at) http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/27/summary/nl.html However, nl_BE LC_MONETARY is an alias to nl_NL and /usr/share/i18n/locales/nl_NL has n_sign_posn=2 - which according to https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Sign-of-Money-Amount.html means: print minus sign after number. So this might be a glibc bug? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-05-23 14:25:25] requinix@php.net The output of money_format is controlled by your system's strfmon(3) function, not PHP. Looks like your locale settings are way out of date: CLDR 26 (the relevant standard for this stuff) is the last time the NL locale was set to use the "¤ #,##0.00-" format, and CLDR 27 changed it to "¤ -#,##0.00" - that was back in 2015. Update your system and/or locale settings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2019-05-23 14:09:04] wesley at weha dot be Description: ------------ When I use nl_BE locale I get the wrong format for negative values. -1234.56 should be € -1 234,56 money_format gives this: € 1 234,56- I'm sorry if anything is filled in wrong, first time here. thank you. Test script: --------------- setlocale(LC_ALL, 'nl_BE.UTF-8') echo money_format('%.2n','-1234.56'); Expected result: ---------------- € -1 234,56 Actual result: -------------- € 1 234,56- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78056&edit=1