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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 08:07:00 -0000
From: keld@keldix.com
To: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH][BZ 20756] Locales: Use Unicode wise thousands separator
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I agree to change space to something else. Given the problems mentioned below with fonts,
maybe a good way forward is to use NBSP, which should be   available in all fonts,
and also is available in olden 8-bit charsets, that are still in use.

Best regards
Keld

On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 02:15:17AM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote:
> Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > In non-proportional fonts, NNBSP renders as a standard width space
> > (NBSP), so there should not be a problem as well.
> 
> My Emacs 23 displays U+202F as a rectangle in many fonts, e.g.
> -Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--17-120-100-100-P-88-ISO10646-1
> (helvR12.pcf.gz from xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.3 on Debian 8.6).
> Playing around with xfontsel -sampleUCS and xfd -fn, I see that
> -Misc-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal--18-120-100-100-C-90-ISO10646-1
> (9x18B.pcf.gz from xfonts-base 1:1.0.3 on Debian 8.6) likewise
> displays a rectangle, but the non-bold variant (9x18.pcf.gz)
> displays a space for U+202F.
> 
> Maybe things look better with FreeType but not everything uses that.