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


  Hi!

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:53:11PM +0200, Keld Simonsen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:14:25PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > (b) A new BZ filed to fix all the locales using <U0020> to use
> >     thin space <U2009>. Set the target milestone to 2.17 please.
..snip..
> Also the use of Unicode only characters break the universallity of locales,
> as they cannot be used with 8-bit character sets.
> And it may break programs that tries to parse numbers. 

  Can you please elaborate on this point? Surely, if a locale is using
UTF-8 charset, it should be permitted to include UTF-8 characters? Is
there a point in making a difference between e.g. LC_TIME and LC_CTYPE?

  (In case a locale is generated with more restrictive charset, e.g.
ISO-8859-1, the thin space is automatically transliterated to normal
space.)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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	than the other way around.  -- Eric S. Raymond


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