Rejected decimal separator (former Re: On the possibility of encoding some localizable sentences in plane 7)

From: Frédéric Grosshans (frederic.grosshans@m4x.org)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2011 - 08:01:54 CST

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    Le samedi 29 janvier 2011 à 01:38 -0800, Asmus Freytag a écrit :
    > The localizability aspect won't help your argument here, because
    > Unicode
    > has rejected earlier, and much more modest proposals for localizable
    > numeric punctuation, the *Decimal Separator* which would have been
    > equivalent to Period of Comma depending on locale. Unicode's mandate
    > therefore explicitly excludes localizable content.
    >

    Just out of couriosity, when was it proposed/rejected ? I do not find
    the rejection in http://www.unicode.org/alloc/nonapprovals.html , where
    I think it would fit nicely.

            Regards,

                    Frédéric 

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