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Re: [PATCH] Locales: Use CLDR matching thousands separator
- From: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>
- To: Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:43:41 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Locales: Use CLDR matching thousands separator
- References: <eb1814b5-cae3-8472-ece6-44bec12d570b@redhat.com> <a2a29fbe-6872-c123-d4d0-2b8664825e72@redhat.com> <1786676151.161483.1534532463077@poczta.nazwa.pl> <9848a4de-2b6e-895b-d601-1358b79ef9f9@redhat.com> <22ed1815-c4c0-bb99-56fd-03a2f79c501d@redhat.com>
17.12.2018 10:40 Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> wrote:
> [...] there's been a recent update on
> the CLDR ticket that gives an impression that it might be best to keep
> using NNBSP in glibc as CLDR is perhaps a little closer adapting NNBSP
> as well:
>
> https://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/11217
Thanks for reminding, I was looking at this recently as well.
> So I think we should not apply this patch for 2.29. We should still
> recheck the CLDR status around this at some later point for a possible
> final decision and in case it would be (perhaps slightly unanticipated)
> to stick with NBSP then we'd need to reconsider this for glibc as well.
It looks to me they are going to accept NNBSP but definitely, if they
say that they want to stick with NBSP or they decide to stop working
on the issue then we will have to switch to NBSP.
Regards,
Rafal