Re: Hexadecimal character entry (ISO 14755)

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Mon Jun 07 1999 - 11:17:50 EDT


Addison Phillips wrote:

> Localization of A-F makes no sense, though! We aren't talking about localizing 0-9 are we? Or have we all forgotten about the many different encodings of numbers than can be used?

Indeed, why not, and for the self-same reason. 0-9 have a somewhat
wider natural range than A-F, but Arabic doesn't use any of them.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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