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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().


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-26 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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