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Re: [PATCH] Fix decimal_point and thousands_sep in es_MX locale


On 6/6/2012 12:25 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>> Yes, it should be a thin space, it's actually what the SI/ISO 31-0
>>> standards specifies. That said a lot of other languages are following
>>> this standard and are supposed to use a thin space there (for example
>>> fr_FR), but are using a normal space (<U0020>) there.
>>>
>>> I realized my intention was to put <U0020> there instead. Is it
>>> something acceptable?
>>
>> Sorry, I'm a bit confused.
>>
>> Why can't we use thin space?
> 
> Probably we can. I am just confused that all the locales that are
> supposed to do that are not doing it, so there might be a reason behind
> that.

Aurelien,

I don't know. Could you give it a try and see what happens? :-)

Petr,

Several standards say that there should be a thin space between
the thousand separator, but the glibc locales have been using an
ASCII space <U0020> instead of the thin space <U2009>.

Do you know of any reason for this?

Cheers,
Carlos.
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