From: Poopathi Manickam (poopathi@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Aug 19 2005 - 02:13:33 CDT
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That's a good news.. indeed..!
[Malayalam digit (glyph ?) Zero got changed.. i.e.,)
So.. which Zero was introduced by European in the 19th century..!? (Roman
Zero.. may be?!)
(or Tamil/Malayalam poochiyam/chuzhi-- the idea of null or was it just a
Sunya-sum game ..?)
Much appreciated,
Poopathi S. Manickam
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----- Original Message -----
From: "N. Ganesan" <naa.ganesan@gmail.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:35 AM
Subject: Update # 21 (Re: Public Review Issues Update)
> Happy to know that Malayalam digit Zero glyph
> will be changed in Unicode, and numerics for
> 10, 100 & 1000 will be added. I provided supporting material for these
> changes and addition of characters. The glyph for digit Zero in all
> Indian languages look uniform now as it was introduced from Europe in
> the 19th century.
>
> Now that PRI # 71 is closed,
> http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-71.html
> in
> http://www.unicode.org/review/resolved-pri.html
>
> Since the arithmetic using numerics of 10, 100 &
> 1000 but without digit zero is unique in the
> world to Tamil and Malayalam languages, an update
> of UTN #21 becomes necessary with a mention of Tamil and Malayalam
> numerics.
>
> http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn21/
> &
> http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn21/tamil_numbers.pdf
>
> We can provide to MichKa parallel Malayalam examples of numbers
> corresponding to the Tamil numbers given in utn#21.
>
> Regards,
> N. Ganesan
>
>
>
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