From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: [9fans] The cost of Runes in Lexi Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:41:31 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f916825c-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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().