Re: [libreoffice-l10n] space between values and units in spinners, fdo#71688

Hi,

for Slovenian I already asked to include space in front of "%" and it was
done. I also changed all translated strings accordingly. It was done for
4.2 or even before, can't remember. Hopefully those settings for Slovenian
were inherited by 4.3.

Lp, m.


2014/1/21 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com>

> For 4.3 we are now, in the normal case, putting space between values and
> units in spinners. e.g. now "10 mm" instead of "10mm".
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_31-0)
>
> For the degree symbol we are not putting space between value and unit,
> i.e. it remains "10°"
>
> I think those are hopefully uncontroversial.
>
> The tricky case is the % symbol, because, while ISO-31-0 implies that
> "10 %" is the preferred scientific format, English style guides prefer
> "10%" and "10 %" looks "just plain wrong". It's a locale-dependent
> formatting rule (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_sign)
>
> 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/)
>
> What this means is that:
> a) In the English strings in .src files the source text should not have
> a space between number and %. I think these are all fixed now.
> b) You should check that the icu percent formatting rule is considered
> correct for your language in the context of a office suite UI e.g. in
> the spinner of view->zoom->zoom->variable
> c) If you agree with icu's % formatting for your language then update
> the translations for X% to be consistent with that formatting. Otherwise
> we can fix icu or make a blacklist of languages which should be excluded
> from the default icu percent formatting.
>
> C.
>
>
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