RE: numeric properties of Nl characters in the UCD

[Arcane Jill]

Actually, I don't understand why UnicodeData.txt has no less than three different fields for numerical value anyway. I mean, it's not as though there exists EVEN A SINGLE CODEPOINT for which two or more of these fields exist and are defined differently from each other. One never sees, for example, a character for which "digit value" is 3 and "numeric value" is 4. It seems to me that one single numeric field would suffice.

You may need a second field to establish what "kind" of number this is (decimal digit, whatever), but then maybe you could figure that out from the general category anyway.

Jill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 2:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: numeric properties of Nl characters in the UCD
>
>
> I do understand why number letter characters with "Nl"
> general category
> don't have a "decimal value" property or a "integer value"
> property, but why
> they don't all have a "numeric value" property in the UCD.