RE: zero-digit

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

> That's good, but while both Tamil and Ethiopic are encoded in the
> Unicode Standard, neither Tamil nor Ethiopic have a zero-digit.  (0,
> i.e., DIGIT ZERO, is used with Tamil, but I don't know where I got
> that information for my book.)  I don't have any call for using either
> script, but what would a person do?

Pragmatically, so long as the numbering system is decimal, just use European
numbering and then convert the result using translate().

Mike Kay 


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