Many languages use small gap as thousands separator.
Thousands separator should not be a plain space, but a narrow space.
And additionally, it is not allowed to wrap line in the middle of the
number.
Locale data were created in a deep age of 8-bit encodings, so most of
them use space (incorrect: it allows wrapping the line in the middle
of the number), or NBSP (better, but typographically incorrect: space
between groups is too wide).
Now UNICODE is widely supported, so we should leave legacy characters
in favor of correct UNICODE character.
UNICODE has a dedicated character for this purpose:
NNBSP
U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE: a narrow form of a no-break space,
typically the width of a thin space or a mid space
The NNBSP exists since Unicode 3.0.
Use of NNBSP will prevent line wrapping in the midle of number and
improve readability of numbers.
[BZ #20756]
* locales/aa_DJ (LC_MONETARY): Replace space by NNBSP as thousands separator.
* locales/az_AZ (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/be_BY (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/be_BY@latin (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/bg_BG (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/bs_BA (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/ce_RU (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/crh_UA (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/cs_CZ (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/cs_CZ (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/cv_RU (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/de_AT (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/eo (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/es_CR (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/es_CR (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/es_CU (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/et_EE (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/et_EE (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/fi_FI (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/fi_FI (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/fr_CA (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/fr_FR (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/fr_FR (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/fr_LU (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/fr_LU (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/hr_HR (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/ht_HT (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/kk_KZ (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/kk_KZ (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/ky_KG (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/ky_KG (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/lv_LV (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/lv_LV (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/mg_MG (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/mhr_RU (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/mk_MK (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/mk_MK (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/mn_MN (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/nb_NO (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/nb_NO (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/nl_AW (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/nl_NL (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/nn_NO (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/os_RU (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/pap_AW (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/pap_CW (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/ru_RU (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/ru_RU (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/ru_UA (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/sk_SK (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/sk_SK (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/sl_SI (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/sl_SI (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/sq_MK (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/sv_SE (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/sv_SE (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/tg_TJ (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/tt_RU (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/tt_RU@iqtelif (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/uk_UA (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/uk_UA (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/unm_US (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
* locales/unm_US (LC_NUMERIC): Likewise.
* locales/wo_SN (LC_MONETARY): Likewise.
These comments are useless and only confusing. The encodings used to
create binary locales from source locales are listed in the
localedata/SUPPORTED file. The source files itself are ASCII or UTF-8
encoded where non-ASCII UTF-8 is currently only used in comments. If
all locale source files are UTF-8 anyway, there is no need to specify
that in a special comment.
