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Re: de_DE has been using the wrong group separator for over 18 years


On 04/18/2018 11:05 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
These standards are simply not universally used. They aren't exactly
wrong, either, because some typesetters actually use a (thin) space.
It's just that adoption is poor.

Florian, this is ambiguous: do you mean "not universally used, except for
financial institutions" or "not universally used, even by financial
institutions"?  Note that there is mon_thousands_sep (in LC_MONETARY)
and thousands_sep (in LC_NUMERIC) so it is possible to set different
thousands separators to format amounts of money and to format other numbers.

As far as I can tell, the dot as the thousands separator is used everywhere in Germany, not just by financial institutions or for currency amounts. On the other hand, you can also find books which use a (thin) space as the separator (current works, outside cited parts), and some people use it in their personal correspondence as well.

Thanks,
Florian


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