Locales: Thousands separator

[Marko Myllynen]

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