On Dec 13, 2006, at 14:24, Michel Fortin wrote:
At the very least, I think find-a-number should be limited to integer numbers. But even then it'll be limited to languages using our western digits and possibly not suitable for full internationalization.
Actually, with proper Unicode libraries it would be reasonable easy to handle any base-10 integers.
Such a scheme could be extended to numbers with a fractional decimal part if the decimal separator was given in an attribute explicitly (defaulting to "."). Thousand separators could be dealt with by skipping certain character classes.
It is reasonable to expect desktop and server software to have access to the Unicode database (e.g. by bundling ICU if there's isn't a proper platform API). However, JScript-based emulation layers on top IE and mobile software may not have access to the Unicode database.
-- Henri Sivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
