From: <yos...@us...> - 2009-01-14 20:54:04
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> Are these used as decimal digits in any case other than displaying the year? > > That's the only case I know of. > > Doug > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:58 AM, <yos...@us...> wrote: > > Unicode has been careful to allocate decimal digits in contiguous > > sets of 10. It seems unnecessary to specify digit strings that will > > be fully redundant with specifying the zero digit character. > I understand the principal. But, how about Ideographic number characters > - 〇一二三四五六七八九 ? > > -Yoshito Such format sometimes used in materials written in vertical order in Japan. ASCII numbers do not fit well when vertically written. When a number is scientific or very large or with fractions, we often use only Kanji digits with separators - for example, 三五〇、二〇八、五一一 instead of 三億五千二十万八千五百十一. I found an article about this in Japanese - http://www.iwanami.co.jp/moreinfo/0802060/top4.html -Yoshito |