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Re: Locales: Thousands separator
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: Mike Fabian <mfabian at redhat dot com>, Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec at suse dot cz>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:01:24 -0400
- Subject: Re: Locales: Thousands separator
- References: <5e0e7fec-59b1-8af9-5711-4509975e8f29@redhat.com>
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.
> Given the considerations above, what do the glibc maintainers think
> about the current situation, is this inconsistency seen as an issue?
... the mistake is that we didn't check to harmonize with CLDR.
Please file a bug and we'll change from NNBSP->NBSP to match CLDR.
Even though I think NBSP is visually wrong, we need to change both
CLDR and glibc at the same time to match.
Cheers,
Carlos.