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Re: Locales: Thousands separator

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Cc: Mike Fabian <mfabian at redhat dot com>, Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec at suse dot cz>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 18:41:52 +0200
Subject: Re: Locales: Thousands separator
References: <5e0e7fec-59b1-8af9-5711-4509975e8f29@redhat.com> <3c30deb6-d0cb-ed92-6403-d7588719c543@redhat.com>

On 06/20/2018 03:01 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

On 06/20/2018 04:10 AM, 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.


No standards need citing. It was clear that SPACE was wrong.

DIN has a breaking space in their national standard, too, as discussedpreviously. But I agree that we don't need to follow standards whenthey are clearly technically broken or do not reflect existing practice,particularly in the area of cultural conventions.


Thanks,
Florian

References:
- Locales: Thousands separator
  - From: Marko Myllynen
- Re: Locales: Thousands separator
  - From: Carlos O'Donell

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