On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Peter Constable wrote: > > 26 Update properties for Ethiopic and Tamil non-decimal digits > > 2003.01.27 Decimal numbers are those using in decimal-radix number > > systems. In particular, the sequence of the ONE character followed by the > > TWO character is interpreted as having the value of twelve. We have > > gotten feedback that this is the not the case for Ethiopic or Tamil. > > Details
> PRI#26: It is my understanding that Ethiopic numerals do not use a > decimal radix. > Most sources describing Ethiopic script will list the characters > representing tens, 100 and 10000. The existence of these characters, > which are not combinations made from sequences of digits for 0 - 9, > already indicates that this is not a decimal-radix system. Thank you for providing many useful and interesting links. FYI, three list styles for Ethiopic scripts were implemented in Mozilla a long time ago. One of them was Ethiopic numeric list style. All three styles are in CSS3 draft. (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102252). BTW, isn't this covered in TUS 3.0 section 11.1 as well as in TUS 4.0 section 12.1 (p. 323 - p. 324) ? Jungshik
