The reason I ask is because mozilla now have code in the CSS style to
handle tamil number as the list id, but I think the code is broken. See
TamilToText() in CVS Blame for nsBulletFrame.cpp (1.44)
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/layout/html/base/src/nsBulletFrame.cpp
for detail
Baki Bon contribute this code based on my Unicode paper, but I don't
think he did the Tamil part right. My unicode paper could be found at
http://people.netscape.com/ftang/paper/unicode16/part2.html
Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> Frank,
>
> Why are you asking, except out of curiosity? It doesn't seem
> to me that the traditional Tamil numbering system is of any
> significant computer interest. As Nakanishi says, the Arabic
> numerals are used now, so localized formatting of numbers for
> Tamil should use those.
>
> But that said, the traditional Tamil system looks very much
> like Chinese. Dropping the initial 1's makes sense to
> me -- it is what Chinese and Japanese typically do when using
> the traditional numbering system for Han.
>
> But at any rate, for your examples, I would expect:
>
> b. 2980 2 1000 9 100 8 10
> c. 11 10 1
>
> For the following, of course I cannot guess without knowing if
> there are rare, higher number counters. I'll see if I can get
> any information from Tamil speakers around here.
>
> d. 456,987
> e. 450,000
> f. 450,002
>
> --Ken
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