Hi Phillipe, ONE+TEENS (1E8C7,1E8D0) is definitely the number 11
A. On 10 Jun 2016 4:53 pm, "Philippe Verdy" <[email protected]> wrote: > Given that there's no digit for zero, you need to append combining > characters to digits 1-9 in order to multiply them by a base > 10/100/1,000/10,000/100,000/1,000,000. The system is then additive. I don't > know how zero is represented. Note that for base 10, when the first digit > is 1 (i.e. for numbers 11-19), the combining character is not 1E8D1 (TENS) > but 1E8D0 (TEENS), i.e. the slash-like glyph. But the description says that > TEENS is only for numbers 11-19, not for number 10. > > But I agree that there should be a reference in > http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1E800.pdf, to the description in > http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/ch19.pdf (section 19.8, > pages 722-723) that would explain how to render 10 (add some rows in table > 19-6 for the numbers 10/100/.../1,000,000). > > This leaves a hole in the description. I'm not sure that the glyph for PU > is exactly the glyph for 10. Or what is the appropriate sequence: > ONE+TENS (1E8C7,1E8D1) or ONE+TEENS (1E8C7,1E8D0) ? The description is > ambiguous, and probably both sequences should produce the equivalent glyph. > However the letter PU (when meaning number 10) looks more like the glyph > produced by ONE+TEN (1E8C7,1E8D1). > > Then how to represent zero ? Probably by a syllable or word meaning "none" > (don't know which it is), or by using European or Arabic digits (as > indicated in Chapter 19). > > > > 2016-06-10 8:15 GMT+02:00 Andrew Cunningham <[email protected]>: > >> Ok looking at issue again I guess the other alternative is to have a >> discontiguous set of numbers. Represent 10 as U+1E8C7 U+1E8D1 and map it >> within the font to the PU glyph. >> >> And hope that font developers don't create a glyph based on shape of >> U+1E8C7 and U+1E8D1, but PU instead. >> >> Andrew >> >> >> On Friday, 10 June 2016, Andrew Cunningham <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > Currently I am doing some work on the Mende Kikakui script, and I was >> wondering what the best way was to represent the number 10. >> > In the early proposals for the script there was a glyph and codepoint >> specifically for the number 10. When the model for Mende Kikakui numbers >> was changed before the finalising of the code block, the number ten was >> removed. But using existing digits and numbers we can produce 1-9 and 11 -> >> but we can not produce the number 10 from digits and numbers. >> > The number ten uses the same glyph as syllable PU U+1E88E. >> > Should I use U+1E88E to represent both the number 10 and the syllable >> PU? >> > Andrew >> > >> > -- >> > Andrew Cunningham >> > [email protected] >> > >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Andrew Cunningham >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >
