Re: Unicode Cyrillic GHE DE PE TE in Serbian

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Sun Jan 02 2000 - 13:05:55 EST

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Ar 09:49 -0800 2000-01-02, scríobh Doug Ewell:

>Just to play devil's advocate, and to improve my understanding...
>
>What was the motivation then for encoding the block from U+06F0 to
>U+06F9, EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO through NINE? Aren't these
>just Persian glyph variants of U+0660 to U+0669, ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT
>ZERO through NINE?

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