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 <caol...@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. > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted >
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