From: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz>
To: keld@keldix.com
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH][BZ 20756] Locales: Use Unicode wise thousands separator
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bac0d30-035a-78ed-fece-fa032d774147@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161102162346.GA16943@www5.open-std.org>
keld@keldix.com wrote:
> Hmmm, I don't believe a narrow space is the right thing to do. At least the recommendation
> in Denmark is that if you have numbers below 10000 then you leave out the
> space or period. And then figures will not be aligned if the with of the separator is
> different from a digit.
The patch does not change letter to NNBSP. It changes only other form of
spaces (space, NNBSP, en-space) to NNBSP.
The alignment should not be a big issue. Software already has to handle
it, as letters ".", "'" or "," in most proportional fonts do not have
the width equal to numerals as well. And they are used in other locales
including en_US. (And even space does not need to have width equal to
numerals.)
In non-proportional fonts, NNBSP renders as a standard width space
(NBSP), so there should not be a problem as well.
> And at least for amount specifications you do not use the space, but the period.
The patch does not change period to space. It changes space to NNBSP.
> All banking applications I have seen in Denmark do not use a space .
> And the few banking apps I have seen in Norway does not use the space either.
Using locale-wise formatting is not mandatory. Application has to ask
for locale-wise formatting explicitly.
--
Best Regards / S pozdravem,
Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-02 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-02 15:53 Stanislav Brabec
2016-11-02 16:24 ` keld
2016-11-02 16:37 ` Stanislav Brabec [this message]
2016-11-02 16:54 ` Carlos O'Donell
2016-11-03 0:14 ` Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
2016-11-03 8:07 ` keld
2016-11-03 8:32 ` Andreas Schwab
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