Re: Vulgar fractions (was: 8859-1, 8859-15, 1252 and Euro)

From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@dircon.co.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 18:07:14 EST


Friday, 11 February 2000, at 22:25
Gary L. Wade wrote:

> You know, I enjoy reading the 90% ranting that occurs on this list like
> the next person, but maybe we should increase the 10% of useful
> discussion to things like, "Do we have encodings for the repeten digits
> to handle cases as mentioned below?"
 
> I had to return the copy of Unicode 2.0 I had and am anxiously awaiting
> the publication of Unicode 3.0, so I can't adequately look this up right
> now. If we don't, maybe we should add these.
 
> FYI, the repeten digits (or whatever others call them) are the
> representations of the digits that denote that a digit repeats
> infinitely. For example, the graphic representation of 7 1/3 would look
> like 7.333 with a horizontal bar above the rightmost "3".

<digit> + U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINE ?

- Chris



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