[Bug localedata/10797] New: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for thousends

[Bug localedata/10797] New: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for thousends

[nicolo dot chieffo at gmail dot com]

Italian people use to put a separator for thousends in numbers.
This separator is U+0307 COMBINING DOT ABOVE

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           Summary: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
                    thousends
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
        AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: nicolo dot chieffo at gmail dot com
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com


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[Bug localedata/10797] it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for thousends

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------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2009-10-29 17:19 -------
Where is the evidence?  I need to see official documents (standards, official
web sites) which show this.

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[Bug localedata/10797] it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for thousends

[nicolo dot chieffo at gmail dot com]

------- Additional Comments From nicolo dot chieffo at gmail dot com  2009-10-29 17:32 -------
Ok, I will try to look for them.
In the mean time you can see that there is a separator for thousends in the
currency.

Ulrich can you help me in bug http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10425 ?

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[Bug localedata/10797] it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for thousends

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------- Additional Comments From nicolo dot chieffo at gmail dot com  2009-10-30 09:36 -------
A sort of citation is wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
In Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Romania, Sweden and much of Europe: 1 234
567,89 or 1.234.567,89 (in handwriting, 1˙234˙567,89 is also seen[citation
needed], but never in Denmark or Sweden).

Notice that at primary school, my math teacher used Ë™ (COMBINIG DOT ABOVE),
while during the following courses nothing was used (just because the thousands
separator is not mandatory, I imagine). I've also seen the space and the full
stop used.

I'm trying to find this in online newspapers, but they seem to prefer using the
word "thousands" instead of the full number

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------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2010-04-09 03:23 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
> A sort of citation is wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
> In Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Romania, Sweden and much of Europe: 1 234
> 567,89 or 1.234.567,89 (in handwriting, 1˙234˙567,89 is also seen[citation
> needed], but never in Denmark or Sweden).

Well, this text says it's a space or a decimal point.  Not the character you
expect to use.

Another negative is that this combining character is used for something
completely different.  You likely want something like U00B7.  U0307 is
transliterated to "".  But even that isn't correct according to your source.

Either provide additional justification or I'll close this.

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