From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 22:21:55 CDT
On 8/2/05, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Rick McGowan wrote:
>
> > 74 Change to Default Localization for NaN in CLDR
> >
> > There has been a request to change the default localization for a NaN from
> > the character U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER to another representation. The
> > NaN floating-point value means "Not a Number", and represents an undefined
> > result of a mathematical operation.
>
> Maybe we can discuss this issue on this list preliminary, to avoid missing
> something obvious. I think the key question whether the value of NaN is a
> single character, as currently defined in the prose of the LDML
> specification:
The thing I personally pegged on is the use of U+FFFD. It's not an
error to print out a NaN, especially not at the character set level;
it seems like something, almost anything, that was actually text would
be better than U+FFFD.
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