on 3/10/00 3:27 AM, Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com at Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com
wrote:
> Samir Mehrotra wrote:
>> 3. Do Japanese, Koreans, Chinese actually uses
>> 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 digits or they have some different numbers/digits?
>
> Chinese uses the following decimal digits (I assume that the situation is
> not very different for Japanese and Korean):
>
> 1) "Narrow" Western digits (U+0030 .. U+0039) of ASCII fame. [...]
>
> 2) "Wide" Western digits (U+FF10 .. U+FF19) [...]
>
> 3) Chinese digits (U+96F6, U+4E00, U+4E8C, U+4E09, U+56DB, U+4E94,
> U+516D, U+4E03, U+516B, U+4E5D) [...]
>
> 4) "Regular" Chinese numbers, [...]
>
> 5) "Anti-fraud" Chinese numbers, [...]
Gosh, Marco, how could you forget the SomePlaceNameEndingInZhou numerals??!?
Hordes of Hong Kong shopkeepers will never forgive you! :-)
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