Support different thousand separators for the numeric scalebar in map composer

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)
Original Redmine Issue: 13281

Redmine category:map_composer/printing

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Currently, the thousand separator for the numeric scalebar is hard coded to a space, i.e. "1:10 000". This style is uncommon in many parts of the world where it should be "1:10,000" or "1:10.000". I suggest adding an option to pick a separator character.

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Related issue(s): #15587 (relates)
Redmine related issue(s): 6287

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Author Name: Denis Rouzaud (@3nids)

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As pointed in the related issue, the thousand separator depends on your locale settings.
Isn't it working as expected?

I think the general policy is to avoid adding settings for everything. Here we have the opportunity to use locale settings, so no new option should be needed.

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)

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Imho, this is not satisfactory for the following reason: If I have a client/template which requires a certain format, do you expect me to always change my locale to try find a setting which produces the required formatting? That's not user-friendly at all. Also - if it really works that way - the user has no idea that the system locale affects this.

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)

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Would you mind changing this back to "open"? Thanks.

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)

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Ping

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Author Name: Michel Kuhlmann (Michel Kuhlmann)

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+1

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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• status_id was changed from Feedback to Open

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• easy_fix was configured as 0

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Author Name: Anita Graser (@anitagraser)

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In QGIS 3, the default separator is system dependent, i.e. on an English system, the separator is a comma.

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Author Name: Alessandro Pasotti (@elpaso)

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QGIS locale is now configurable in the settings (defaults to system locale).

And the thousands separator can be omitted.