On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Steven R. Loomis <srl_at_icu-project.org> wrote:
> Richard,
> For parse, it's pretty simple: U+0031 has a Unicode digit value. U+FE0E
> does not. ( Nor is it part of the defined numbering systems in LDML - see
> http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Numbering System Data )
> So, U+FE0E is the end of the sequence - not a number. End of parsing.
>
>>
>> > > 10<ZWJ>0<ZWJ>0 would be perfectly reasonable for text
>> > > likely to be rendered by a cursive Latin font
>
>
> It's not reasonable for numeric parsing, however.
Which is one of those things that frustrate people to no end.
Invisible characters that mean that numbers aren't actually numbers
will mean that somewhere, someone will beat their head against the
desk and probably eventually work around a problem they will never
understand.
-- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.Received on Wed Mar 20 2013 - 01:13:51 CDT
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