https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18957
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--- Comment #7 from entli...@gmx-topmail.de 2009-06-06 16:01:22 UTC ---
I'm asking you not to put this live for now.
1. "DIN 1333 says a space should be used as thousands separator" - that's true,
but it is not widely followed in practice. In practice, the traditional dot is
still in use, except for Switzerland and Liechtenstein, where the dot is never
used and an apostrophe may be used instead.
2. "Grouping numbers should start at 5 digits" - DIN 1333 doesn't say that.
What DIN 1333 really says is that a thousands separator may be used, but
doesn't have to be. It doesn't say when it should be used. The idea of handling
four-digit numbers specially is just a private mannerism of some Wikipedians.
Maybe it can be found in old-fashioned typography textbooks, maybe even in some
modern ones, but not it any standard. It is inappropriate for tables and at
least questionable for the body of the text. Some typographers indeed propose
to not group 4-digit numbers *unless* they are compared to a 5-ore-more-digits
number within the same sentence or paragraph. formatnum can't know the context.
3. There is at least one more standard touching the problem that has been
ignored so far: DIN 5008.
Also note the discrepancy between
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreibweise_von_Zahlen and
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Schreibweise_von_Zahlen. There is no
consensus to change anything at all yet. Should you decide to change it anyway,
it would be cool if it didn't break existing formatnum:|R usages like
{{formatnum:1.234,56|R}}, which should give 1234.56.
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