Re: Kaktovik Inupiaq numerals

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:45:17 +0100

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:32:09 -0700
David Starner <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> The proposal seems trivial, except for the
> minor problem of establishing sufficient use to justify encoding.

If they are to be adopted by the CLDR, the digits need to be coded
consecutively. However, the symbols for '5', '10' and '15' do invite
interpretation as combining diacritics. Decompositions would have to
be encoded from the very beginning - they cannot be added in a later
standard.

Richard.
Received on Fri Apr 27 2012 - 12:46:37 CDT

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