Re: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

[Russ Allbery]

Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What happens if unicode supported uppercase and lowercase numbers?

> [I had a dig about, and it doesn't seem to mention lowercase or
> uppercase digits. Are they just a typography distinction, and hence not
> enough to be worthy of codepoints?]

Damned if I know; I didn't know there even was such a thing.

Uppercase vs. lowercase for letters is more than a typographic distinction
for many languages; there are words in English, for example, with a
different meaning depending on whether they're capitalized (since
capitalization indicates a proper noun).  If there is some similar
distinction of meaning for numbers in some language, I suppose that
Unicode may add such a thing; to date, there doesn't appear to be any
concept of uppercase or lowercase for anything but letters.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>