From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] The cost of Runes in Lexi
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:41:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AYGdnepfh5v1-6DdRVn-gQ@comcast.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9b74b6445d28fc21789f1fb390f769b@yourdomain.dom>
dbailey27@ameritech.net wrote:
> ... is it worth the time to interpret UTF
> patterns besides Latin '0' -> '9' as integers? ...
Not really, at least not in the context of technical uses,
where everybody learned to use Arabic numerals. Other
numeric glyphs can be thought of as ideographs; you have
to deal with them (unchanged) as part of text strings, but
you don't need to bog down parsers using an overly generous
implementation of isdigit().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-26 10:41 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-24 23:07 dbailey27
2004-02-26 10:41 ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2004-02-26 13:47 ` dbailey27
2004-02-26 13:52 ` dbailey27
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