On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:27:37PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 01/21/2014 12:59 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote: > >So to resolve this we now have a function formatPercent which takes the > >number and the locale and runs it through icu's PercentInstance to > >format it according to that locale's formatting rule. Which gives e.g. > >"10 %" for de and "10%" for en. (http://site.icu-project.org/) > > But at least my copy of Duden "Satz- und Korrekturanweisungen" asks for a > thin instead of a full space in front of percent (and per-mille) signs in > German. Could we handle that, too, or is that beyond the state of the art > in UI typography?
Unicode has a thin space character (U+2009), so if translators used it it should just work. The tricky part would be ICU. Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
