On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 07:08:44 +0530 Shriramana Sharma <samj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looking at the two sets of Brahmi numbers would also be instructive... There's nothing unexpected there. BRAHMI DIGIT ZERO...NINE have numeric type "decimal", probably as the ancestral members of the general category Nd. BRAHMI NUMBER ONE...NINE very sensibly get the numeric type "digit" - their values are arguably context senitive, but they do not exploit the place system. U+11064 BRAHMI NUMBER ONE HUNDRED and U+11065 BRAHMI NUMBER ONE THOUSAND, so far as I am aware, have no positional sensitivity affecting their value. Apparently U+1105B BRAHMI NUMBER TEN to U+1105E BRAHMI NUMBER FORTY do have some positional use, being used for in combinations such as <U+11065 U+1105B> for '10,000'. The available options seems to be to either give them type "digit" and values 1 to 4, or type "numeric" and values 10 to 40. I too would plump for numeric type "numeric" and unsurprising values. Richard.