RE: What is ` (U+0060) for?

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 15:15:47 EDT

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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Ayers, Mike wrote:

> I'm curious about the number spacing, though - did you invent that
> yourself, or does it have a context? I've never seen nuumbers written like
> that before.

BTW, we also use it in Persian for thousands separator where a real
thousands separator is not available. On PCs, it looks the nearest to
ARABIC THOUSANDS SEPARATOR as used in Persian.

--roozbeh

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