Quoting GOTO Masanori ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > At Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:27:34 +0200, > Christian Perrier wrote: > > This bug report is definitely right. The thousands separator in french > > is a space and not empty. So, thousands_sep should be "<U0020>" > > > > All references I have consulted use this, including all Microsoft > > Windows versions..:-) > > Thanks for your investigation. However Denis Barbier said it should > be <U00A0> instead of <U0020>. Which separater should we select?
Denis is right, I forgot about this, which we indeed discussed together at Debconf. <U00A0> is a non breaking space which makes much more sense than a space for numbers separator because it theoretically prevents number to be wrapped at line ends. Not sure whether MS environments use it or a "normal" space, but nothing prevents us from being better than them, right ? :-)
