[Tutor] three numbers for one

[Alan Gauld]

On 08/06/13 08:01, Jim Mooney wrote:

>>      >>> unicodedata.name('༳')
>>      'TIBETAN DIGIT HALF ZERO'
>>      >>> unicodedata.numeric('༳')
>>      -0.5
>
> There are programmers in Tibet? That certainly changes my picture of the place.

Even if there aren't programmers (and I'm pretty sure there will be) 
there are definitely writers. And Unicode is primarily for writers' 
benefit not programmers - we'd probably prefer to make everyone use 
ASCII! :-)


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