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[PATCH] doc: use a comma for thousands separator

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Package: emacs; Reported by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@HIDDEN>; Maintainer for emacs is bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN.

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> From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@HIDDEN>
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:48:02 -0700
> 
> I noticed this occurrence of '.' for a thousands separator while looking
> at the manual. As far as I can tell, all other parts of the manual
> use ','.
> 
> Also, since CONTRIBUTING mentions preferring American English,
> using American thousands/decimal separators seems to make the most
> sense.

Thanks.  I don't see why we should use a thousands separator there at
all, so I simply removed it.




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To: bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN
Subject: [PATCH] doc: use a comma for thousands separator
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I noticed this occurrence of '.' for a thousands separator while looking
at the manual. As far as I can tell, all other parts of the manual
use ','.

Also, since CONTRIBUTING mentions preferring American English,
using American thousands/decimal separators seems to make the most
sense.

Collin


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From a8b37c6544390da2234ba7dff016df6d2c322850 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@HIDDEN>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:37:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: use a comma for thousands separator

* doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi (MinGW-w64): Use a comma instead of a period
for thousands separator.
---
 doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi b/doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi
index 4e409261cd9..6aab9ce5566 100644
--- a/doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/efaq-w32.texi
@@ -2157,7 +2157,7 @@ MinGW-w64
 MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows
 software.  It plays the same role MSYS does in MinGW.  Being a
 distribution, MSYS2 provides tools to build software as well as more
-than 2.600 precompiled packages ready for use.
+than 2,600 precompiled packages ready for use.
 
 @node EZWinPorts
 @section EZWinPorts
-- 
2.49.0


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