From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 118755 invoked by alias); 19 Apr 2018 08:08:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 118734 invoked by uid 89); 19 Apr 2018 08:08:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=correspondence, money, financial, H*f:sk:3e1607a X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Subject: Re: de_DE has been using the wrong group separator for over 18 years To: Rafal Luzynski , libc-alpha@sourceware.org, kdex References: <7224816.qpMlRvYOtE@punchy> <3e1607ab-e44e-9b28-5fd2-541b3313906d@redhat.com> <4012681.xXnO2VdWZr@punchy> <2145111686.75879.1524085534412@poczta.nazwa.pl> From: Florian Weimer Message-ID: <3532d02b-6f3c-6d8e-6549-e34ae294d314@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:08:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2145111686.75879.1524085534412@poczta.nazwa.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-04/txt/msg00389.txt.bz2 On 04/18/2018 11:05 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote: >>> These standards are simply not universally used. They aren't exactly >>> wrong, either, because some typesetters actually use a (thin) space. >>> It's just that adoption is poor. > Florian, this is ambiguous: do you mean "not universally used, except for > financial institutions" or "not universally used, even by financial > institutions"? Note that there is mon_thousands_sep (in LC_MONETARY) > and thousands_sep (in LC_NUMERIC) so it is possible to set different > thousands separators to format amounts of money and to format other numbers. As far as I can tell, the dot as the thousands separator is used everywhere in Germany, not just by financial institutions or for currency amounts. On the other hand, you can also find books which use a (thin) space as the separator (current works, outside cited parts), and some people use it in their personal correspondence as well. Thanks, Florian