Re: uppercase and lowercase numbers

From: Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2009 - 14:10:42 CST

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    John H. Jenkins wrote:

    > 在 Feb 6, 2009 10:59 AM 時, John (Eljay) Love-Jensen 寫到:
    >
    >> Are U+00030 through U+00039 uppercase or lowercase numbers? Or
    >> neither / unspecified?
    >>
    >
    > Neither/unspecified. Unicode considers numeral casing (and numeral
    > spacing, which is a separate issue) glyphic variations which are not
    > appropriate to embody in text encoding.

    This may sound odd when compared with casing of Latin (and some other)
    letters, but it can be argued that casing can make a semantic distinction
    for letters (e.g., separating a generic noun from a proper noun), whereas
    for digits, casing is stylistic and does not affect meaning.

    Moreover, casing of digits is usually the same across a piece of text, i.e.
    you use either lowercase digits or uppercase digits throughout the text.
    This supports the idea that it’s stylistic variation, comparable to the
    choice of a font (and quite often made through the choice of a font).

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    Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ 
    


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