one more question,
Is a font replacing a-z and A-Z with language dependent glyphs (floating)
for HEX glyphs is legal and multilingual?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Vining" <alistair.vining@ntlworld.com>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 12:44 AM
Subject: RE: Hexadecimal characters.
> Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> >
> > There is also another fact which may be interesting. My father, when he
> > was a high school student, had some advanced mathematic course, where
they
> > also studied computation in base more than ten. They used Persian digits
> > for zero to nine, and lowercase greek letters alpha, beta, ... for
digits
> > more than nine.
>
> So what we really need are combining number characters: one for the digit
value and
> one for the base.
>
> But oh no! only integer bases up to (number of code points allotted). How
will we
> cope.
>
> Al.
>
>
>
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