space between values and units in spinners, fdo#71688

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:27:37PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 01/21/2014 12:59 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> >So to resolve this we now have a function formatPercent which takes the
> >number and the locale and runs it through icu's PercentInstance to
> >format it according to that locale's formatting rule. Which gives e.g.
> >"10 %" for de and "10%" for en. (http://site.icu-project.org/)
> 
> But at least my copy of Duden "Satz- und Korrekturanweisungen" asks for a
> thin instead of a full space in front of percent (and per-mille) signs in
> German.  Could we handle that, too, or is that beyond the state of the art
> in UI typography?

Unicode has a thin space character (U+2009), so if translators used it
it should just work. The tricky part would be ICU.

Regards,
Khaled