Locales: Thousands separator

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/20/2018 03:01 PM, 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.

DIN has a breaking space in their national standard, too, as discussed 
previously.  But I agree that we don't need to follow standards when 
they are clearly technically broken or do not reflect existing practice, 
particularly in the area of cultural conventions.

Thanks,
Florian