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Commas are punctuation too... so what are you proposing?
by Filligree 3y ago
Commas 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")