On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:34:03 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:29:00 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:59:22 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > What do perople think about making the thousands separator a space by > > > default? > > > > > > > Is that really good for a majority of users? I had never heard of it > > until now. I know this is hardly scientific, but still... > > > > Well, to me "1 000 000 000" looks better than "1,000,000,000". But I do > not know about the others. That is why I was asking :) That's a complex topic unfortunately. I prefer "1 000 000" too, but many would prefer "1,000,000", others would prefer "1'000'000", and in India many would even prefer "1,00,0000" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousands_separator#Examples_of_use). The cleanest solution would be to use something that cares about the LC_NUMERIC environment variable. sprintf() can do such things, but I'm not aware of any possibility to do that in elisp. -- Thomas/Schnouki