On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > BTW my boys have just mailed me their latest: > >>>> 九.九九 > > 9.99 > > Can some unicode/Chinese literate person inform me whether > that ideograph is equivalent to roman '9' or roman 'nine'?
I'm not Chinese-literate, but I know how to dig up info from the Unicode side of things. '\u4e5d' CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E5D Thanks, very helpful. Perhaps slightly more useful: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D But it still doesn't disambiguate digit vs word. Playing around with Google Translate suggests that it functions mostly like a digit; 九九 means "Ninety-nine" and 九八 means "Ninety-eight". But I'll leave further confirmation to someone who fits your second description. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list