Re: Locales: Thousands separator

[Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz>]

On 06/20 2018 at 05:20 PM Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> 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.
...
>> I have been under impression that the long-term plan for glibc locales
>> would be to use CLDR data as source to the extent possible so this
>> change would seem to be at odds with that plan. I found no indications
>> from CLDR Trac that CLDR would be switching to NNBSP. This inconsistency
>> also presents a dilemma for keymap definitions when there is only one
>> feasible key combination available for producing non-breaking space:
>> which variant to choose, the glibc one or the CLDR one.
>>
>> Given the considerations above, what do the glibc maintainers think
>> about the current situation, is this inconsistency seen as an issue?
> 
> When I proposed this change, I was not aware of use of CLDR.
> 
> Created ticket now:
> https://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/11217
> 
CLDR decided to accept the NNBSP approach.

In the CLDR version 36, they decided to use French as a NNBSP trial:
https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/36/by_type/numbers.symbols.html#a1ef41eaeb6982d

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
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