From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 409 invoked by alias); 2 Sep 2004 18:15:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 395 invoked by alias); 2 Sep 2004 18:15:45 -0000 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:15:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20040902181545.394.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "pogonyshev at gmx dot net" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20040829211203.352.pogonyshev@gmx.net> References: <20040829211203.352.pogonyshev@gmx.net> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sources.redhat.com Subject: [Bug localedata/352] Russian `thousands_sep' should be a space (0x20), not a dot (0x2E) X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Additional Comments From pogonyshev at gmx dot net 2004-09-02 18:15 ------- Subject: Re: Russian `thousands_sep' should be a space (0x20), not a dot (0x2E) > I assume you are talking about the ru_RU locale? Yes. > Should it be space (0x20) or non-breaking space (0xA0)? Well, if non-breaking space is possible in context of glib, then of course it is a much better option. > I've send an email to the previous contributors for the ru_RU > locale (Sergei Ivanov, Vadim V. Zhytnikov, Ilya > Ovchinnikov and Alexander V. Lukyanov) to get their comments on this > change request. > > Do you have any official looking Russian documents/web pages > specifying or using monetary formating with space instead of > period? Here is the most official recommendation I found in a brief search (in Russian): http://spravka.gramota.ru/buro.html?gotoq=145837 Crude translation of the answer to English: Technical rules of typing direct to separate into groups number which have at least 4 digits (groups of 3 digits each, right to left). A dot between groups is prohibited. Correct is: 12 680 459,30. A few "non-official" arguments I have: * I _never ever_ saw dots as thousands separator in well-published books and in the few books I checked, spaces were used (e.g. in a Biological Encyclopedia). I tend not to consider books from 1990 and onwards as in the computer age the state of book formatting decreased significantly. * I remember Artemiy Lebedev's (a well-known Russian designer) opinion on this topic: spaces or no separators at all. While he is not a linguist, he is a man who doesn't say something he doesn't know about. He is one of a few people whom I trust even in areas they are not professionals in. Unfortunately, my HDD failured recently, so I currently can't easily read/answer mail. My replies to this thread may be very delayed during a few weeks. Paul -- http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=352 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.