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

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32 dot net>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 01:14:25PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 6/6/2012 1:02 PM, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 12:48:28PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> >> 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?
> > 
> > My *guess* is the reason is mostly historical. It seems that before
> > 2000, locale files did not use Unicode codepoints but markup like <SP>,
> > which was then mechanically rewritten to <U0020> and noone bothered to
> > change it further; new locale authors likely did not think much of it
> > and/or copied data from existing locales using <U0020>.
> > 
> > I would certainly approve of updating this to thin space where
> > appropriate. However, I think that
> > 
> >   (i) Some programs might get confused by this; the person doing the
> > change should check at least behavior of common office programs after
> > this change (not sure if there is any other common software using this
> > data?), and possibly discuss this with their developers if there are
> > problems.
> > 
> >   (ii) We should do the change en masse at least in most locales that
> > are appropriate to change, so that any possible bugs in handling of
> > Unicode characters in these fields are quickly noticed and fixed.
> > 
> > Hope that this does not sound as too much work; I could help with
> > some of it, but do not have time to do the whole change by myself.
> > 
> 
> This sounds like a great plan. We need leaders to step up and make
> bold suggestions! :-)
> 
> For avoidance of doubt I would like to see:
> 
> (a) A new patch that uses <U0020> to fix es_MX. I'll review this again.
> 
> and
> 
> (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.
> 
> Aurelien, would you mind doing that?
> 

Yes, it's something I can do, but I won't be able to do (b) before a few
days due to lack of time, as this part needs some more testing.

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