Re: Hexadecimal characters.

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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 16:00:15  
 Eric Muller wrote:
>For the scripts which have their own digits, are there conventions to 
>write hexadecimal numbers with those digits? If I read a Devanagari text 
>book, will I see "20A7", or "२०?७" (where "?" stands for whatever is 
>used for A)?
>
>Thanks,
>Eric.
These would remain decimal.  Some scripts have numerals beyond 0-9 already, but those are part of the tradition associated with it.  For instance Mayan or Sumerian would have numerals beyond ten (if they were to be included in Unicode).
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