Re: Tamil numerals

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Fri Sep 19 1997 - 06:11:47 EDT


>At 07:31 PM 9/18/97 -0700, Leong Kok Yong wrote:
>>I would like to know what's the purpose of the inclusion of Tamil
>>numerals in the Tamil range in Unicode?

The non-decimal numbers were encoded because they exist, though they may
not be used on, for instance, calculators these days. :-)

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