Christopher, This is an excellent suggestion. A submission can be made using n2352-form.pdf that you can get from this site.
http://www.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/summaryform.html Raymond Mercier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Cullen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:23 PM Subject: Chinese rod numerals > > I am an academic with research interests in the history of ancient > Chinese mathematics, and I should like to propose the encoding of > traditional Chinese rod numerals. > > These represent the arrays of "counting rods" on a counting board as > used in China for complex calculations before the invention of the > abacus. There are eighteen forms in all, representing the numerals one > to nine in two forms which are basically versions of each other with a > 90 degrees rotation. One form is used for units, the the other for > tens, then back to the first form for hundreds, and so on. A zero is > represented by a gap in the array. For pictures of these and an > explanatory text, see: > > http://www.math.sfu.ca/histmath/China/Beginning/Rod.html > > These forms appear in pre-modern mathematical books in China, and in > modern books discussing ancient mathematics. They are not to be > confused with the the related "Hangzhou numerals", which are already > encoded at 3021-303a. It would be a great convenience to have these > as a standard resource rather than having to create a special private > font in order to represent them. > > From a private source, I have been told that these forms are neither in > any current Unicode encoding initiative, nor indeed anywhere in the > proposal pipeline. I should therefore be grateful for any comments or > advice that might guide me towards making a formal submission. > > > Christopher Cullen >
