RE: zero-digit

At 4 Dec 2000 10:22 -0000, Kay Michael wrote:
 > > That's good, but while both Tamil and Ethiopic are encoded in the
 > > Unicode Standard, neither Tamil nor Ethiopic have a zero-digit.  (0,
 > > i.e., DIGIT ZERO, is used with Tamil, but I don't know where I got
 > > that information for my book.)  I don't have any call for using either
 > > script, but what would a person do?
 > 
 > Pragmatically, so long as the numbering system is decimal, just use European
 > numbering and then convert the result using translate().

That depends on your definition of decimal.  Tamil counts in tens,
sure, but Tamil has separate characters for ten, one hundred, and one
thousand.  Ethiopic has separate characters for ten, twenty, thirty,
forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred, and ten
thousand.

I think the real answer is that someone using either Tamil or Ethiopic
would have to write their own function to format their numbers
correctly.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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