Devanagari int literals [was Re: Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?]
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 23:43:35 EDT 2015
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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'?
I'm not Chinese-literate, but I know how to dig up info from the
Unicode side of things.
'\u4e5d' CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E5D
Thanks, very helpful.
Perhaps slightly more useful:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D
But it still doesn't disambiguate digit vs word.
Playing around with Google Translate suggests that it functions mostly
like a digit; 九九 means "Ninety-nine" and 九八 means "Ninety-eight". But
I'll leave further confirmation to someone who fits your second
description.
ChrisA
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