> My suggestion would be to just give values 1-9, 10-90 for the > Chinese rod numerals and be done with it, for the Unicode character > properties. But the fact that the values are position dependent > raises the suspicion that this really is a calculation system, > rather than simply a set of 18 numeral characters, and as such, it > may be over the edge of what is appropriate to encode in the > Unicode Standard. > > --Ken
Too bad it is over the edge, for if it wasn't it could have been encoded as follows: Supplementary characters for chinese rods base-100 digits 0-99. Left half of the glyph looks like space or 10-90. Right half looks like space or 1-9. Assigned in such a way that the 18 cinese rod numerals plus two extra spaces behave as if they were assigned to surrogate code points.
