From: Luke-Jr (luke@dashjr.org)
Date: Tue Jun 08 2010 - 15:36:31 CDT
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 02:43:22 pm John Dlugosz wrote:
> So it's only history that some glyphs used as digits are separate and
> others (for Computer Science work anyway) are not. In practice, we don't
> need unique assignments, in general. There are characters that are used
> in numeric literals and they are a subset of those used for words in
> general.
I see this as saying that we don't need HTML, XML, or any other content-
describing formats, and arguing that we should stick to a format that merely
describes the appearance (such as PDF or Postscript) since the meaning can be
implied from how it appears.
Assuming you don't actually believe that-- why should it be any different on
the character level?
Finally, there are in fact rendering differences between O and 0 (or else
nobody would understand your history lacking the words "letter", "number", and
"symbol"), and it is plausable if the tonal system were encoded that a font
might like to give visual hints as to the difference between a decimal 2 and a
tonal 2.
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