Thomas Lotze <thomas dot lotze at uni dash jena dot de> wrote: > Why is it that while there are both uppercase and lowercase roman > numerals in the Unicode character set (in the Number Forms range), no > lowercase arabic numerals (old-style or text figures) are encoded? If > they are regarded as presentation forms of the uppercase numerals (in > the Basic Latin range), why is this not the case for their roman > counterparts?
Because oldstyle numerals aren't really "lowercase" in the same sense as small letters (though some typographers think of them that way; see [1]). They're just glyph variants of the uniform-height "lining" numerals, so yeah, it's a character-glyph thing. [1] http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/RulesOfType/ROT1297.html -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
