I love the proposal to add western tally marks because it only occuies two code points for a techically equivalent solution: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16065-tally-marks.pdf
L2/16-065 (Proposal to encode two Western-style tally marks)<http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16065-tally-marks.pdf> www.unicode.org 1 L2/16-065 Title: Proposal to encode two Western-style tally marks Source: Ken Lunde (Adobe) & Daisuke MIURA Status: Individual contribution Action: For ... However this proposal isn't complete unless we can identify tally marks 2, 3 and 4 easily and the simplest way is to add named character sequences, where we just repeat tally mark one an n number of times.