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From: Jure Sah <jure.sah@t-2.com>
To: bug-glibc-locales@gnu.org
Subject: Bug in sl_SI locale file
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 11:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c3abcc1-2b27-04f1-66a7-3a1929dddced@t-2.com> (raw)

Hello,

I would like to report a bug in the sl_SI locale, the version I have is 
labeled like this:
% Language: sl
% Territory: SI
% Revision: 4.4
% Date: 1997-11-05

The problem is in the LC_NUMERIC section. The Thousands Separator 
(thousands_sep)  is indicated as <U0020> which is a space character. 
This creates problems in scripts, because space is sometimes a delimiter 
and with this setting, numbers are sometimes merged inappropriately. 
This is a problem that does not exist if a different locale is used 
(which I would assume is the usual way people solve this issue).

While a thousands separator is not commonly used, the technically 
correct character for this according to Slovenian number styling 
standards, would be <U002E> aka the dot. Likely this was not used, to 
avoid problems in compatibility with locales where the dot is a decimal 
separator (e.g.: English).

LP,
Jure

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2019-11-29 11:13 Jure Sah [this message]
2019-11-29 12:02 ` Florian Weimer

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