Maya numerals

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Hi,

I was refreshing my memory about Maya numerals: http://www.michielb.nl/maya/math.html
and started thinking how would one do these in Unicode, given the funny "stacking".

        NOTE: the following is most definitely an encoding suggestion/request for
        the Maya numerals, firstly because I'm not a Maya expert, and secondly because
        unicode@unicode.org would hardly be the right place to ask.

Am I correct in assuming that the following is how it would work:

MAYA DIGIT ZERO
MAYA DIGIT ONE
MAYA DIGIT TWO
MAYA DIGIT THREE
MAYA DIGIT FOUR
MAYA DIGIT FIVE
MAYA DIGIT ONE COMBINING
MAYA DIGIT TWO COMBINING
MAYA DIGIT THREE COMBINING
MAYA DIGIT FOUR COMBINING
MAYA DIGIT FIVE COMBINING

and four example 12 would be

MAYA DIGIT FIVE + MAYA DIGIT FIVE COMBINING + MAYA DIGIT TWO COMBINING

or would it work to have just

MAYA DIGIT ZERO
MAYA DIGIT ONE COMBINING
MAYA DIGIT TWO COMBINING
MAYA DIGIT THREE COMBINING
MAYA DIGIT FOUR COMBINING
MAYA DIGIT FIVE COMBINING

and make the combiners combine with U+0020 (or U+00A0)?

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