RE: numeric properties of Nl characters in the UCD

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 09:48:17 EST

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At 15:40 +0100 2003-11-26, Philippe Verdy wrote:

>The cost of such exceptions is that an application cannot reliably use the
>general categories to detect, evaluate or create numbers in a relevant
>script. So this requires a separate table for each supported script.

Um. It's not as if anyone does computations using Gothic numbers, Philippe.

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