From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Jun 04 2010 - 14:00:34 CDT
On 4 Jun 2010, at 20:39, Luke-Jr wrote:
> Unicode has Roman numerals and bar counting (base 0); why should base 16 be denied unique characters?
It isn't. 0123456789ABCDEF. I have calculators which do sums with this notation.
> Unicode has Roman numerals and bar counting (base 0); why should base 16 be denied unique characters?
Because we don't have enough fingers.
> Unicode has Roman numerals and bar counting (base 0); why should base 16 be denied unique characters?
Because both begins with a B.
> From another perspective, the English-language Arabic-numeral world came up with ASCII. Unicode was created to unlimit the character set to include coverage of other languages' characters. Why shouldn't a variety of numeric systems also be supported?
A wide variety of numeric systems ***IS*** supported in the UCS. You can do sums in Sumerian and Egyptian and Linear B and Phoenician and lots of other numeric systems.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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