From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 00:31:54 EST
Thomas Lotze <thomas dot lotze at uni dash jena dot de> wrote:
> Why is it that while there are both uppercase and lowercase roman
> numerals in the Unicode character set (in the Number Forms range), no
> lowercase arabic numerals (old-style or text figures) are encoded? If
> they are regarded as presentation forms of the uppercase numerals (in
> the Basic Latin range), why is this not the case for their roman
> counterparts?
Because oldstyle numerals aren't really "lowercase" in the same sense as
small letters (though some typographers think of them that way; see
[1]). They're just glyph variants of the uniform-height "lining"
numerals, so yeah, it's a character-glyph thing.
[1] http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/RulesOfType/ROT1297.html
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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