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Re: [RFC][PATCH][BZ 20756] Locales: Use Unicode wise thousands separator

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon at iki dot fi>
Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 09:31:54 +0100
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH][BZ 20756] Locales: Use Unicode wise thousands separator
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On Nov 03 2016, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi> wrote:

> Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz> writes:
>
>> In non-proportional fonts, NNBSP renders as a standard width space
>> (NBSP), so there should not be a problem as well.
>
> My Emacs 23 displays U+202F as a rectangle in many fonts, e.g.

I don't think locale definitions should be driven by deficient software
configurations.

Andreas.

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References:
- [RFC][PATCH][BZ 20756] Locales: Use Unicode wise thousands separator
  - From: Stanislav Brabec
- Re: [RFC][PATCH][BZ 20756] Locales: Use Unicode wise thousands separator
  - From: keld
- Re: [RFC][PATCH][BZ 20756] Locales: Use Unicode wise thousands separator
  - From: Stanislav Brabec
- Re: [RFC][PATCH][BZ 20756] Locales: Use Unicode wise thousands separator
  - From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo

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