Actually the primary reason was that those characters have different
numeric properties (as well as different shapes).
Mark
Michael Everson wrote:
> Ar 09:49 -0800 2000-01-02, scr�obh Doug Ewell:
>
> >Just to play devil's advocate, and to improve my understanding...
> >
> >What was the motivation then for encoding the block from U+06F0 to
> >U+06F9, EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO through NINE? Aren't these
> >just Persian glyph variants of U+0660 to U+0669, ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT
> >ZERO through NINE?
>
> Roundtrip legacy compatibility characters.
>
> Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn Teoranta ** http://www.egt.ie
> 15 Port Chaeimhghein �ochtarach; Baile �tha Cliath 2; �ire/Ireland
> Vox +353 1 478 2597 ** Fax +353 1 478 2597 ** Mob +353 86 807 9169
> 27 P�irc an Fh�ithlinn; Baile an Bh�thair; Co. �tha Cliath; �ire
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Tue Jul 10 2001 - 17:20:57 EDT