On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 07:30:22PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On Oct 26, 2007, at 15:23 , Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > > I think you mean arabic numerals. Roman numerals are a bit baroque. > > But there are non-arabic numbers in use. For example, the learning > activity from OLPC Nepal includes a game to learn the numerals in use > in Nepal: > > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-open/2007-October/000216.html > > (picture of numerals: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/nepali.htm)
No doubt and I know that Hindi/Marathi/Sanskrit has their own version of the arabic numbers. I think we have to solve this on a case-by-case basis. We have to balance standardization and disambiguation against preserving the cultural heritage. _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
