On 29/07/15 15:08, Ian Abbott wrote:
On 29/07/15 14:58, Paul_Koning@dell.com wrote:
On Jul 29, 2015, at 3:03 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
* africa, asia, europe, southamerica: In commentary, be more consistent about using № (U+2116 NUMERO SIGN) for number sign, as opposed to "No.", "Nº", "#", etc.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to use an obscure Unicode character that a lot of people won’t be able to display. It’s one thing to use proper letters with diacriticals. But “No.” is perfectly clear. The proposed character is just a rather ugly ligature for that abbreviation.
I don't mind it that much as there are other miscellaneous Unicode characters in the file, but the № character does look horribly condensed when rendered in a fixed width font (which is how the tzdata files are normally viewed).
Also, I spotted a few misses in the 'europe' file: European Union 7th Council Directive # 94/21/EC Russian Government Decree # 725 Government of Russia decree # 740 Also, in the 'africa' file, the '#' in this changed line looks redundant: # time: Energy conservation?"-# № 16578 (07/11/2008) was originally -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Web: http://www.mev.co.uk/ )=-