Talk:Percent sign

message: The article says In modern times, a solidus is used instead of the horizontal fraction bar. However this doesn't seem to be universal.
I've seen quite often fonts that connect the top “o” with the top of the bar with a little downwards-curved line, for example Century Schoolbook L and cmr10 (Computer Modern, used by TeX, and thus present in lots of scientific texts). This should be probably mentioned (I imagine it's a leftover of the per cento abreviation).
There are other variations. Analecta has a right-pointing serif on top of the bar. Many constant-width fonts, including Courier New, Free Mono and Monospace use an almost-horizontal bar (though still slightly sloped). Mallige has the bar even more sloped (almost vertical) than the forward dash, which is itself more sloped than a solidus. Mathematica1 has one that's also closer to vertical than a solidus (though less so than the slash). bogdanb (talk) 13:44, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glyph variations 

message: According to "Svenska språknämnden" ("The Swedish language council") and its book "Svenska skrivregler" ("Swedish writing rules") it is preferred to use a space before the percent sign when writing Swedish. Could this information be added to the article as well? Thanks!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.41.170.225 (talk) 09:32, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swedish 

message: I've reverted to change from "The Guardian's and some American style guides" back to "English style guides" because writing the number and percent sign without any space between is more or less universal practice in every English style guide. Writing it the other way is inaccurate because it implies that English usually uses a space, and that some style guides stipulate no space as a deviation from usual English practice. Doremo (talk) 08:19, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I think MOS:PERCENT says the same. Reading the MOS bullets carefully, the second bullet (relevant here) says: "in those places, use the % sign not the words". It does not say that outside of the listed places (e.g., in non-technical article body text) one should use a spaced %-sign. Rather, it concludes in the body one can use the words not the symbol. In short: our MOS says "the %-sign is used unspaced always". -DePiep (talk) 09:51, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: MOS does say that % should not have a space, but other units should. I don't think I have even seen this practice in English, despite this article stating that this is the general practice, spaces are never used. I don't know why you don't use spaces between the value and the unit in English, but I suspect it is because it is the only way to distinguishing, in English, when a value followed a unit is a measurement and when value has nothing to do with the unit.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:6B0:1:1E20:225:64FF:FEC3:2B42 (talk) 10:04, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spacing 

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