RE: numeric properties of Nl characters in the UCD

[Arcane Jill]

PLEASE don't quote me out of context, Doug. You can't quote "This being so" without also quoting what the "This" predicate was upon which the conclusions were based. As it happens, it was subsequently pointed out to me that the "This" predicate was, in fact, NOT so, therefore it is perfectly obvious that the conclusion will no longer follow from the predicate. What's more, the post from which you were quoting was my ASKING for the Unicode definition of "decimal digit", not ascribing one. The fact that I said "IF it is defined in such-and-such a way in Unicode THEN xyz follows", does NOT imply that xyz follows regardless of the "if" condition. I don't like being misquoted, quoted out of context, or being accused of taking positions which I do not take, and I really don't like it when someone actually argues against a position which I do not take, as though I had said something I hadn't. (That's usually considered a "straw man" argument). I humbly request that in future, if people were to respond to what I have actually said in full, instead of to part of it taken completely out of context, then I'd feel a lot happier.

Of course I know what "decimal" means in everyday language. Do you think I'm an idiot? Please stop treating me as one.
Jill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Ewell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 5:08 PM
> To: Unicode Mailing List
> Cc: Arcane Jill
> Subject: Re: numeric properties of Nl characters in the UCD
>
>
> Arcane Jill <arcanejill at ramonsky dot com> wrote:
>
> > This being so, it is possible that the (misnamed) property "decimal
> > digit" should also apply to Ewellic hex digits. They're not
> radix ten,
> > but that's not what "decimal digit" means anyway.
>
> Of course it is.  The word "decimal" ultimately derives from the Latin
> "decem," meaning "ten."