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gcalctool package

  1. Bug #631665
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 631665

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

That works only for languages which have the property "thousands_sep" defined in LC_NUMERIC and the point that Ara and Sergio are raising is fair.

The Unix locales is not the _truth_ and the user should be able to set a grouping separator if he wants to even if none is defined in the Unix locale.

What does the standardization organization says:
"Therefore the space is recommended in the SI/ISO 31-0 standard,[8] and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures states that "for numbers with many digits the digits may be divided into groups of three by a thin space, in order to facilitate reading." (summary from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Digit_grouping feel free to read the full iso documentation if you have problem sleeping)

Moreover, the Unicode consortium (http://cldr.unicode.org/) defines in its Unicode Common Locale Data Repository a grouping separator for es_ES - '.' - and pt_PT - 'space'.

So, I think that a full fix for this, without using another repository than the Unix locale, would be to use the value for the grouping separator as defined in LC_NUMERIC and if none or empty then fallback to 'space' which is internationally recognized.

What do you think ?