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On 06/20/2018 03:01 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
On 06/20/2018 04:10 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:Commit 70a6707 [1] changed many locales to use U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE (NNBSP) as the thousands separator instead of U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE (NBSP). The patch submission nor the follow-up discussion [2] did not cite any standards or references as rationale for this change.No standards need citing. It was clear that SPACE was wrong.
DIN has a breaking space in their national standard, too, as discussed previously. But I agree that we don't need to follow standards when they are clearly technically broken or do not reflect existing practice, particularly in the area of cultural conventions.
Thanks, Florian
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