On 10 Jun 2016, at 23:34, Ken Whistler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/10/2016 3:23 PM, Michael Everson wrote: >> Mende Kikakui has no ZERO. This is a fault, and they would do well to devise >> one. An oval with a line through it like Ø would do. But they don’t have >> this. > > I concur with that. If the users of this system decide that they want to have > a decimal radix system instead of the system documented with the combining > marks for decimal ranks, then adding a zero at 1E8C6 would be feasible. > That's why we left a gap at that point in the chart.
Indeed! >> MENDE KIKAKUI SYLLABLE PU is the appropriate character to use for a >> non-decimal 10. The dot or not-dot or the length of the bar is not relevant; >> I understand that both occur for both entities. Do we have other LETTER >> characters which are disunified from NUMBER (as opposed to DIGIT) >> characters? If so, then consistency might be a reason to disunify them. > > I disagree about that. There is no reason to depart from the logic of the > system for this one value. Add one ligature glyph to your font for the > sequence for 10, and you're done. You’re right about that. I hadn’t considered the ligature being structurally appropriate for this usage. (It would have been more obvious if Andrew had given the character names alongside the code positions; I hadn’t looked it up yet.) Michael
