Ar 13:43 -0800 2000-04-06, scríobh John Cowan:
>Michael Everson wrote:
>
>> Not quite. Digits are disallowed in word-initial position within character
>> names, and while they ar presently pretty much only used to represent
>> shapes, there are lots of character names proposed for Plane 1 (Egyptian
>> Hieroglyphs, Indus, Rongorongo, etc.) where the character name is really
>> its catalogue number (to be preceded by a letter of some sort; I think I
>> used H000-H999 for Indus (Harappan), R for Rongorongo, etc).
>
>Yes. I meant "Digits are (de jure) discouraged, and are (de facto) only
>used to represent their shapes."
Well, rather "have hitherto (de facto) only been used to represent their
shapes".
Except of course in the CJK character names. :-)
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