Re: Roman numerals in non-latin text

From: Pim Blokland (pblokland@planet.nl)
Date: Thu Jun 12 2003 - 13:08:58 EDT

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    António Martins-Tuválkin schreef:

    > I'm referencing to a book entitled:
    > Памятники

    (etc, which translates into Памятники Музея Ізящныхъ Іскусствъ імені
    ІмператораАлександра III въ Москве)

    > I see that the the roman ordinal "third" can be encoded in a
    couple of different ways:
    >
    > - U+0049 U+0049 U+0049
    > - U+0406 U+0406 U+0406 (considering that this old russian
    orthography)
    > - U+2162
    > - U+2160 U+2160 U+2160

    No. Encoded like that it may *look* like a roman three, but two of
    those are definitely not correct. Only U+2162 or its compatibility
    decomposition, U+0049 U+0049 U+0049 should be used. The other two
    are bad coding, just as using greek Iotas or combinations of U+2160
    and U+0049 would be.

    Pim Blokland

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