Re: Unicode Cyrillic GHE DE PE TE in Serbian

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Sun Jan 02 2000 - 14:10:36 EST

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Doug Ewell scripsit:

> 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?

They have different bidirectional properties.

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