Wrong currency symbols for Romanian (ro) locale

[jarek.zgoda@…]

Romanian locale has broken currency symbols in formatting for RON and ROL currencies:

>>> format_currency(123.56, 'RON', locale='ro_RO')
>>> u'123,56 0\u2264lei noi|1\u2264leu nou|1<lei noi'
>>> format_currency(123.56, 'ROL', locale='ro_RO')
>>> u'123,56 0\u2264lei vechi|1\u2264leu vechi|1<lei vechi'

Compare this to Polish locale:

>>> format_currency(123.56, 'PLN', locale='pl_PL')
>>> u'123,56 z\u0142'

In Polish locale, currency symbol is properly displayed using local currency name (zł).

Standard locale.localeconv() returns 'zł' for curr_symbol in Polish and 'Lei' in Romanian locale.

[jruigrok]

This is taken from the CLDR data, so any changes will have to be made there. Good chance that 1.6, due to be released soon, will have this fixed.

[cmlenz]

This is actually a bug in the CLDR import script. It uses the <symbol choice="true"> element instead of <displayName>.

[cmlenz]

No, the real problem is that we don't support  choice patterns for currency symbols, which will return a different symbol based on the value.

[cmlenz]

[425] changed the CLDR import process to ignore currency symbol definitions that include choice patterns, which is the only sensible thing to do as long as we don't support them at runtime.