From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Aug 16 2003 - 22:03:09 EDT
Adam Twardoch <list dot adam at twardoch dot com> wrote:
> Seriously: since no writing system "natively" uses hexadecimal digits
> (except for a bunch of crazy programmers), there is no reason encoding
> them.
For an example of a constructed, and NOT AT ALL widely used, writing
system that does include native support for hexadecimal numbers, see:
http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/ewellic.html
Tengwar, which is much more widely used and respected, has native
support for base-12 numbers:
http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/tengwar.html
And of course there are "real" writing systems such as Tibetan and
Ethiopic which do include numerals other than 0 through 9.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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