Shouldn't this be an FAQ? -----Original Message----- From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Michael Everson Sent: Poʻalima, Iune 04, 2010 12:01 PM To: unicode Unicode Discussion Subject: Re: Hexadecimal digits
On 4 Jun 2010, at 20:39, Luke-Jr wrote: > Unicode has Roman numerals and bar counting (base 0); why should base 16 be > denied unique characters? It isn't. 0123456789ABCDEF. I have calculators which do sums with this notation. > Unicode has Roman numerals and bar counting (base 0); why should base 16 be > denied unique characters? Because we don't have enough fingers. > Unicode has Roman numerals and bar counting (base 0); why should base 16 be > denied unique characters? Because both begins with a B. > From another perspective, the English-language Arabic-numeral world came up > with ASCII. Unicode was created to unlimit the character set to include > coverage of other languages' characters. Why shouldn't a variety of numeric > systems also be supported? A wide variety of numeric systems ***IS*** supported in the UCS. You can do sums in Sumerian and Egyptian and Linear B and Phoenician and lots of other numeric systems. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
