It should, provided that the Unix locale settings provided by the OS are correct. For example Apple has a long-standing error in their Swiss currency file that provides '.' and ',' for the thousands separator and decimal point respectively (the Swiss use ' ' and '.'). The ICU-based locale data are correct, which confuses users.
Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 9, 2019, at 10:23 AM, Adrien Monteleone > <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > David, > > I would second that notion against making it default. > > I see this as an issue of locale though, and it is only for display. (the > grouping space, like the grouping comma is not part of the data, or should > not be.) Also, Fiable notes the desire to copy/paste or import, so typing the > thin/narrow space wouldn’t be an issue, and that can be solved anyway with a > keyboard map and a higher level modifier key. > > Fiable, > > What is your locale setting in your OS? Do you have ‘grouping’ set to > ’space’? Is your default currency in GnuCash also one normally used in that > locale? I should think GnuCash would use that OS setting. (or should) > > Regards, > Adrien > > >> On Sep 9, 2019 w37d252, at 8:24 AM, David Carlson >> <david.carlson....@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> First, ISO 31-0 was withdrawn on 17 November 2009. It is superseded by ISO >> 80000-1 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_80000-1>. Other parts of ISO 31 >> have also been withdrawn and replaced by parts of ISO 80000 >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_80000>. >> >> That standard suggests that large numbers with many digits be displayed as >> groups of three separated by a small space instead of dots or commas. We >> do not have small space characters on our keyboards, so that will be >> difficult to implement. >> >> I would also argue that in the U.S. average persons will adopt small spaces >> with the same fervor that they have adopted metric measures in general. >> >> While it would be ok to adopt this convention as an alternate in GnuCash, I >> am strongly against forcing the display to omit dots or commas as >> thousands separators. >> >> From Wikipedia " In Unicode <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode>, thin >> space is encoded at U+ >> <https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/2000-2FFF#ref_THSP> >> 2009 thin space (HTML   *·*  ). Unicode's U+ >> <https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/2000-2FFF#ref_NNBSP> >> 202F narrow no-break space >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow_no-break_space> (HTML  ) >> is a non-breaking >> space <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space> with a width >> similar to that of the thin space." >> >> That's my 2 ¢. >> >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 6:40 AM Fiable.biz via gnucash-user < >> gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote: >> >>> Hello. >>> I suggest an option for the acceptance by GnuCash of the international >>> notation of numbers, as defined by ISO 31-0 standard and the 22nd General >>> Conference on Weights and Measures, which declared in 2003 that "the symbol >>> for the decimal marker shall be either the point on the line or the comma >>> on the line" and further reaffirmed that "numbers may be divided in groups >>> of three in order to facilitate reading; neither dots nor commas are ever >>> inserted in the spaces between groups".81 235,67 and 81 235.67 have the >>> same meaning and would both be accepted, but 81,235.67 would be refused. >>> Presently space is neither accepted in importing nor in pasting into >>> GnuCash. Moreover, if one has chosen the dot as decimal separator then the >>> coma is refused and vice versa... So I very often have to modify files in >>> LibreOffice before importing them into GnuCash, and to type figures I could >>> just copy and paste. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
