[PATCH] Locales: Use CLDR matching thousands separator

Rafal Luzynski digitalfreak@lingonborough.com
Tue Dec 18 00:38:00 GMT 2018


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



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