Re: Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

From: Asmus Freytag (t) <asmus-inc_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:25:32 -0700

Unless there is a value in documenting the value of the numerator and
denominator, in which case this should be prominently explained in the
documentation. Or is that written down somewhere already?

A./

On 3/28/2015 1:05 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
> In the 8.0 Beta files, some numerical values are not reduced to their
> lowest forms. Is there a compelling reason that
>
> 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R;;;;6/12;N;;;;;
>
> is not written as
>
> 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R;;;;1/2;N;;;;;
>
> given that there is also a
>
> 109BD;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION ONE HALF;No;0;R;;;;1/2;N;;;;;
>
> Aren't the numeric values of U+109FB and U+109BD the same?
>
> Existing software that looks at the numeric values of characters is
> written expecting that rational numbers will have been reduced to
> their lowest form.
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