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Nobody should use punctuation as thousands separator regardless of which side you are on.
by anilakar 3y ago
Nobody should use punctuation as thousands separator regardless of which side you are on.
- Filligree 3y agoCommas are punctuation too... so what are you proposing?
- bondant 3y agoCould use a space or an underscore: 100 000 100_000
- GhostWhisperer 3y agowhy not '
- rphln 3y agoHow about U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE? 1 000 (Narrow nbsp) 1 000 (Regular nbsp) (Assuming HN even allows it.)
- registeredcorn 3y agoInteresting! Do you know of any countries that use the underscore? I believe I've seen France(...?) use spaces as a separator, but I've never come across the underscore. Personally I would like some means of breaking up units of triplets that could be used universally. It's frustrating that there isn't a standard across the globe for such crucial means of expression. It wasn't until fairly recently that I learned that the comma wasn't the universal standard.
- bondant 3y agoI am not aware of any country using the underscore to separate multiple of thousands, I just thought of it because it can be used for that purpose in some programming languages. Ans if it's true that no country is using it, then I guess it could be used as a 'neutral' way of doing it.
- jacquesm 3y agoNow you have two problems.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoI got 99.0 problems and separators ain't one
- downvotetruth 3y agoSpaces cause ambiguity with separate values like 123 456. Underscores are ambiguous with missing values due to the common use of a line segment to indicate where to fill out form values in addition to the same separate values issue as spaces.
- registeredcorn 3y agoAt a guess 100000 My personal preference would be: 100000 (monetary symbol), but, I also understand that others might prefer the symbol before the numeric (i.e. $100000), even though you would not say "Dollars one hundred thousand" in English.
- vidarh 3y agoThe closest you get to an international standard (that not many use) is the International Bureau of Weights and Measures recommending (ideally thin) spaces (so "10 000")