CLDR TL;DR article

[Cameron Dutro]

Nice article Nick, thanks for sending it out! Happy to see CLDR Perl
development continuing forward :)

-Cameron

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Steven R. Loomis <srl at icu-project.org>
wrote:

> Philippe,
>  I don't read in
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-general.html#ListPatterns where
> only one character is allowed, is it a survey tool or test limitation? Is
> there a bug filed if so?
>
> S
>
> Enviado desde nuestro iPhone.
>
> El dic 24, 2014, a las 3:55 AM, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo.fr>
> escribió:
>
> That article about the Locale::CLDR gives an example of bad usage with:
>
>
>    -
>
>    fr: «foo», «bar» et «baz»
>
> In this case the quotations marks are not enough in French, there MUST
> also be some non-breaking whitespace (preferably the thin non-breaking
> space) after the opening quotation mark, and before the closing mark.
>
> Unfortunately the CLDR data only accepts 1 character for these marks when
> we should expect to find also the THINSP character
>
> The THINSP is used before the exclamation mark, the question mark, the
> colon and the semi-colon (i.e. all punctuation signs made with more than 1
> connected glyph). That thin space should also be present beside all dashes
> not connecting two words; unlike English that prefers no whitespace at all
> with em dash), and it is also the standard whitespace used as the separator
> for grouping digits (numeral quantities, phone numbers...).
>
> And that library does not correct that...
>
> (Note that on systems that cannot accept THINSP for French, the fallback
> can be NBSP, or a standard SPACE, but NEVER the absence of whitespace
> like in English).
>
> Have a nice Christmas in family. See you back in two days.
>
> 2014-12-23 21:18 GMT+01:00 Nick Patch <patch at cpan.org>:
>
>> I wrote a short article on programming with the CLDR, which was published
>> in the Perl Advent Calendar today.
>>
>> http://perladvent.org/2014/2014-12-23.html
>>
>> --
>> Nick Patch
>> @nickpatch
>>
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