Subject: RE: zero-digit From: Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:18:12 -0400 (EST) |
At 4 Dec 2000 10:22 -0000, Kay Michael wrote: > > 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(). That depends on your definition of decimal. Tamil counts in tens, sure, but Tamil has separate characters for ten, one hundred, and one thousand. Ethiopic has separate characters for ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred, and ten thousand. I think the real answer is that someone using either Tamil or Ethiopic would have to write their own function to format their numbers correctly. Regards, Tony Graham ====================================================================== Tony Graham mailto:tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9632 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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