From: Jungshik Shin (jshin@mailaps.org)
Date: Fri Nov 28 2003 - 15:34:09 EST
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Peter Constable wrote:
> > 26 Update properties for Ethiopic and Tamil non-decimal digits
> > 2003.01.27 Decimal numbers are those using in decimal-radix number
> > systems. In particular, the sequence of the ONE character followed by the
> > TWO character is interpreted as having the value of twelve. We have
> > gotten feedback that this is the not the case for Ethiopic or Tamil.
> > Details
> PRI#26: It is my understanding that Ethiopic numerals do not use a
> decimal radix.
> Most sources describing Ethiopic script will list the characters
> representing tens, 100 and 10000. The existence of these characters,
> which are not combinations made from sequences of digits for 0 - 9,
> already indicates that this is not a decimal-radix system.
Thank you for providing many useful and interesting links.
FYI, three list styles for Ethiopic scripts were implemented in Mozilla
a long time ago. One of them was Ethiopic numeric list style. All three
styles are in CSS3 draft.
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102252).
BTW, isn't this covered in TUS 3.0 section 11.1 as well as in
TUS 4.0 section 12.1 (p. 323 - p. 324) ?
Jungshik
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