[PATCH v3 3/4] emacs: rename notmuch-decimal-separator to notmuch-thousands-separator

[Thomas Jost]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:34:03 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:29:00 -0400, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:59:22 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin at 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
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