RE: Character properties

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 09:33:08 EDT

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On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com wrote:

> Notice however the exception of Tamil "digits" which, despite the name, have
> actually nothing to do with decimal digits (there is no zero but, in turn,
> there are characters for "tens", "hundreds", etc.).

Is it like the old Chinese system? 534 becomes <5><100><3><10><4>?

--roozbeh

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