For general purpose locale data such as in LDML, and a general purpose library such as ICU, a number is something that a user is simply typing from a keyboard, not necessarily any textual representation of a number.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:11 PM, David Starner <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Steven R. Loomis <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Richard, > > For parse, it's pretty simple: U+0031 has a Unicode digit value. U+FE0E > > does not. ( Nor is it part of the defined numbering systems in LDML - see > > http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Numbering System Data ) > > So, U+FE0E is the end of the sequence - not a number. End of parsing. > > > >> > >> > > 10<ZWJ>0<ZWJ>0 would be perfectly reasonable for text > >> > > likely to be rendered by a cursive Latin font > > > > > > It's not reasonable for numeric parsing, however. > > Which is one of those things that frustrate people to no end. > Invisible characters that mean that numbers aren't actually numbers > will mean that somewhere, someone will beat their head against the > desk and probably eventually work around a problem they will never > understand. > > -- > Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. >
