[Bug 573304] Re: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign
This bug was fixed in the package mountall - 2.38 --- mountall (2.38) unstable; urgency=low * Counterproductively document in debian/copyright the license of files in intl that form no part of the binary package, to get through the Debian NEW queue. -- Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:44:59 -0700 ** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573304 Title: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/573304/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 573304] Re: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign
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[Bug 573304] Re: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign
** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573304 Title: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/573304/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 573304] Re: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign
** Package changed: plymouth (Ubuntu) = mountall (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: mountall (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573304 Title: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 573304] Re: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign
“There is no consensus as to whether a space should be included between the number and percent sign in English. Style guides – such as the The Chicago Manual of Style – commonly prescribe to write the number and percent sign without any space in between.[3] The International System of Units and the ISO 31-0 standard, on the other hand, require a space.[4][5]” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage To me, using the space looks consistent with the way a space is added in front of all the other units. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573304 Title: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 573304] Re: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign
Of the two references from the Wikipedia article, one is to a standard that has been withdrawn, and the other says: In mathematical expressions, the internationally recognized symbol % (percent) may be used with the SI to represent the number 0.01. Thus, it can be used to express the values of dimensionless quantities. When it is used, a space separates the number and the symbol %. In expressing the values of dimensionless quantities in this way, the symbol % should be used rather than the name “percent”. In written text, however, the symbol % generally takes the meaning of “parts per hundred”. There's an implication (but only an implication) that the use in written text might be different from that in mathematical expressions. A space is added in front of units, certainly, but a percentage sign, whether it means 0.01 or parts per hundred, is not a unit. I filed the bug because my preference is that of the style guides, which tend to be more interested in aesthetics than standards bodies. But I think the most important consideration here is consistency. I can't find anything about this subject in the GNOME HIG, but Sound preferences omits the space before %, (as do df and di on the command line). The Ubuntu Power Statistics on my laptop puts a space before units (Wh) but not before percentage signs. I have, so far, been unable to find another core Ubuntu UI with a space before percentage sign (indeed, I haven't found any other program that does so, but I've been concentrating on core Ubuntu programs). OpenOffice.org Calc does not put a space before percentage signs (looking in the Format-Cells... dialog, under Percentage style). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573304 Title: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 573304] Re: Disk check shows spurious space before % sign
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