Why not have as part of your kanji collation order, the Han digits one through nine, in that order?
Why are they called CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPHs, anyway? Only a committee would come up with a name like that.
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Well, I guess what you say is true,
I could never be the right kind of girl for you,
I could never be your woman
- White Town
>These old numbering systems, however, have the additional problem that they
>are not easily distinguished from other text. In most cases, these numbers
>are not spelled with special numeric characters (such as the digits), but
>rather use the normal letters or ideographs used to spell normal text. This
>problem occurs with the old numbering systems of several scripts: Latin,
>Greek, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese.
>
>> If so, how do you sort two different digits which have the
>> same numeric value?
>
>I suggested point (f) in the algorithm above: if all else fails, revert to a
>normal textual compare.
>
>_ Marco
>
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