In a message of Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:30:48 -0700, Rustom Mody writes: >BTW my boys have just mailed me their latest: > >>>> 九.九九 > >9.99 > >Can some unicode/Chinese literate person inform me whether >that ideograph is equivalent to roman '9' or roman 'nine'?
Ah, I don't understand you. What do you mean roman 'nine'? a phonetic way of saying things? What bankers use to help prevent forgeries? Something else? 九 is a numberal. The numberal 9. For absolutely certain. But since I don't know what you mean by 'nine' it may mean that, as well. 九 is not restricted to any particular dialect of Chinese -- if you speak any chinese you will know what this means. On the other hand the pinyan (phonetic) way to pronounce numbers can vary between dialects. Chinese has *many* ways of writing numbers, at least 4 I know about. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerals Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
