Re: Encoding of Numbers Composed of Decimal Digits (General Category of Nd)

We don't have that as a policy (
http://www.unicode.org/policies/property_value_stability_table.html). It's
worth proposing via the feedback form, because that is the expectation.

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Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033>
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 05:18, Richard Wordingham <
richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Is it anywhere stated as policy that numbers written by a string of
> decimal digits will be encoded with the most significant digit first in
> storage order? I couldn't find it stated anywhere.
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> As positional notation only seems to have been invented and propagated
> once or twice (Babylonian and Indian inventions), it is perhaps not
> surprising that almost all decimal positional systems have the most
> significant digit on the left, and so the digits have Bidi classes EN,
> AN or L. The one exception is the N'ko script, and consequently its
> digits have the Bidi class R. (I can't guarantee that this is the
> reason that led to their Bidi class.)
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> Richard.
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Received on Sat Apr 28 2012 - 11:25:09 CDT