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  • From: James K. Lowden <jklowden AT speakeasy.org>
  • To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Ode to UTF-8
  • Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 23:32:46 -0400


On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:18:55 -0400, James K. Lowden
<jklowden AT speakeasy.org> wrote:

> The Devanagari range (0900­097F), for example, is
> used to represent Tamil (as in Madras, India).

Sorry to mislead; must have had the smart bit turned off tonight.

Devanagari is used for Hindi.
Tamil (0B80­0BFF) is used for Tamil.

The funny thing is, what would be the Tamil zero (the value just before
TAMIL DIGIT ONE is marked

0BE6 <reserved>
with a pointer to: 0030 0 digit zero
[our friend ascii]

Discovery of the zero is credited to Indian mathematics. Perhaps that's
part of the story; perhaps I'm just starting a rumor.

See for yourself at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0B80.pdf The
Unicode manual is facinating reading if you have any interest in I18N.

Just for the record. EOT.

--jkl




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