RE: Digit/letter variants in the same unified script (was: stability policy on numeric type = decimal)

2010-08-01 Thread CE Whitehead
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:04:26 +0200 From: verd...@wanadoo.fr To: pub...@khwilliamson.com; m...@macchiato.com CC: due...@it.aoyama.ac.jp; asm...@ix.netcom.com; kent.karlsso...@telia.com; unicode@unicode.org For Arabic ther are clearly two separate sets of digits, but the possibility

Re: Digit/letter variants in the same unified script (was: stability policy on numeric type = decimal)

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Davis ☕
Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:57, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Martin J. Dürst due...@it.aoyama.ac.jp wrote: On 2010/07/29 13:33, karl williamson wrote: Asmus Freytag wrote: On 7/25/2010 6:05 PM, Martin J. Dürst wrote: Well,

Re: Digit/letter variants in the same unified script (was: stability policy on numeric type = decimal)

2010-07-29 Thread Philippe Verdy
Mark Davis ☕ m...@macchiato.com It is not so strange. Read http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr24/proposed.html#Multiple_Script_Values, and other parts of #24 describing Common. It is exactly because I had read this proposed update for UTS#24 that I used my argument (if not, I would have not

Re: Digit/letter variants in the same unified script (was: stability policy on numeric type = decimal)

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Davis ☕
That just really isn't a script issue; it is more an issue of which language orthographies use which characters, and we have provision for that information in CLDR. Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:07, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Mark Davis ☕

RE: Digit/letter variants in the same unified script (was: stability policy on numeric type = decimal)

2010-07-29 Thread CE Whitehead
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:57:17 +0200 Subject: Digit/letter variants in the same unified script (was: stability policy on numeric type = decimal) From: verd...@wanadoo.fr To: due...@it.aoyama.ac.jp; pub...@khwilliamson.com CC: asm...@ix.netcom.com; kent.karlsso...@telia.com;

Re: Digit/letter variants in the same unified script (was: stability policy on numeric type = decimal)

2010-07-29 Thread karl williamson
Mark Davis ☕ wrote: Mark /— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —/ On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 05:57, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr mailto:verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Martin J. Dürst due...@it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:due...@it.aoyama.ac.jp wrote: On 2010/07/29 13:33, karl

Re: Digit/letter variants in the same unified script (was: stability policy on numeric type = decimal)

2010-07-29 Thread karl williamson
Asmus Freytag wrote: Having Nd be limited to characters that a) are used in decimal radix numbers b) are part of a complete, ordered sequence 0..9 would make this property regular enough to serve implementers. You could script the creation of relevant data for your implementation based on that

Re: Digit/letter variants in the same unified script (was: stability policy on numeric type = decimal)

2010-07-29 Thread Philippe Verdy
karl williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com wrote: This discussion doesn't make sense to me. The original proposal to encode 19DA says that there is one set of digits in New Tai Lue, but there is an extra digit '1' (the one that got put at 19DA), used when the other digit '1' is visually