Re: Malayalam Zero - an error?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 01:43:48 CST

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At 17:33 -0500 2005-04-06, N. Ganesan wrote:
>I am not suggesting adding any symbols for fractions in Tamil or Malayalam.
>There are tons of fractions in Tamil, for example. Nowadays, the
>Hindu-Arabic numerals and decimal system has replaced all these.

That may be true, but for representation of historical materials they
should probably be encoded. I recently acquired a good reference
source for South Indian scripts which contains a number of these
characters, which will doubtless lead to a proprosal in due course.

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