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Re: Locales: Thousands separator
- From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos 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 16:17:47 +0300
- Subject: Re: Locales: Thousands separator
- References: <5e0e7fec-59b1-8af9-5711-4509975e8f29@redhat.com> <3c30deb6-d0cb-ed92-6403-d7588719c543@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>
Hi,
On 2018-06-20 16:01, 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.
Sure, there was no question about that.
>> 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.
Thanks, I just filed:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23318
> Even though I think NBSP is visually wrong, we need to change both
> CLDR and glibc at the same time to match.
Thanks,
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Marko Myllynen