New Polish L10N formats file

[Ludwik Trammer]

Updated Polish formats.py file, taking advantage of new L10N features in Djnago 1.2.

[Jannis Leidel]

(In [13298]) Fixed #13577 -- Updated Polish formats file. Thanks, ludwik.

[sero]

Thousand separator should be ' ' (space) instead of '.' (dot). The old one was good.

[Jarek Zgoda]

(In [13327]) Fixed #13577 - wrong thousands separator in Polish formats file. Thanks sero for report.

[Ludwik Trammer]

Replying to sero:
I believe both formats are valid. I have nothing against changing it to space, but it would have to be a non-breaking space (there is nothing worst then a line break in the middle of a number). My first instinct would be to just put " " there, but I don't think it would be a good solution. The problem is those formats can probably be used outside of HTML space, so using an HTML entity could break things...

[Łukasz Rekucki]

Replying to ludwik:

I believe both formats are valid.

Don't know about the dot, by the typesetting standard (PN-83) says it it should be a 2pt. width space.

I have nothing against changing it to space, but it would have to be a non-breaking space (there is nothing worst then a line break in the middle of a number). My first instinct would be to just put " " there, but I don't think it would be a good solution. The problem is those formats can probably be used outside of HTML space, so using an HTML entity could break things...

Check out unicode character "\u2009" ( ). It has the right width and it's recomended as a thousands separator. AFAIR, Django templates are always unicode, so it could do the trick. I agree with you that an ordinary space is a bit confusing and will cause problems with line breaks, so I think I'll open this again.

[Claude Paroz]

Needs a new patch

[Russell Keith-Magee]

FYI - The only thing holding this back from 1.3 is a consensus on the right solution. The patch is still using a dot; discussion seems to suggest that Polish standards indicate a nonbreakable space is appropriate.

If someone can resolve this discussion (and update the patch if required), please mark RFC and I'll commit.

[Claude Paroz]

Just checked in CLDR data set, Polish has non-breaking space as thousand separator.

[konryd]

For thinsp / against nbsp:

• It honors the standard PN-83 which is polish typesetting standard (which I currently don't have access to, and my Google-fu is failing)

For nbsp / against thinsp:

• the unbreaking behaviour is desirable
• thinsp seems esoteric to me (please correct me if I'm wrong)
• this page says Opera doesn't display thinsp properly: ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Thinsp
• CLDR data set confirms this option

I'd say use nbsp. I'm happy with submitting a patch, but I'm not sure if putting unicode there wouldn't break things.

[konryd]

nbsp as thousand separator for polish locale

[Jannis Leidel]

In [15843]:

Refined changes to Polish localization format file made in r13298 and r13327 by using non-breaking space. Refs #13577.

[Jannis Leidel]

Uh, closing, this shouldn't have been reopened in the first place because there was a commit already.

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.3 deleted