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Bug 38579 - Size of changes - minus-sign instead of hyphen
Size of changes - minus-sign instead of hyphen
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Depends on: 8327
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Reported: 2012-07-22 16:46 UTC by jogo.obb-wiki
Modified: 2014-09-06 09:22 UTC (History)
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Description jogo.obb-wiki 2012-07-22 16:46:21 UTC 
In the version history of articles, mediawiki displays the size of changes in bytes. When the size of the change is negative, currently a hyphen-minus U+2010 (‐) is used. The correct sign would be the minus-sign U+2212 (−).
Comment 1 Platonides 2012-07-22 17:06:14 UTC 
We are using - (hyphen-minus, U+002D) not ‐ (hyphen, U+2010). I'm not sure there's a benefit of using − (minus signm U+2212), given that hyphen-minus can work as a minus and is ASCII compatible.

The code to change would be Language::formatNum() at line 2881 of Language.php
Comment 2 TMg 2012-10-25 13:11:11 UTC 
Set priority to "normal" per user request. I can confirm the current character is wrong. It's a common replacement for the minus sign but since we are using Unicode anyway I don't see a strong reason why the history and diff pages need to be ASCII compatible. They aren't anyway.
Comment 3 TMg 2012-11-27 11:18:58 UTC 
It seems $wgMiserMode is the reason why the character is wrong.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/48986

So basically the bug is that {{formatnum:-12345}} prints negative numbers with the wrong minus character. Why is that? Bug 8327 is closed as "wontfix" without providing a proper reason.
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