Follow-up from Tuesday's discussion of digits in the

[Martin Duerst]

At 16:06 08/12/04, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>Shawn Steele skrev:

>> That makes sense, but the intent is to prohibit mixed digits, then all of 
>them should be prohibited from being mixed, not just these 3.  Why allow 
>mixing of the indic digits for example?  And then if we go that far, why 
>allow mixing of scripts at all?
>>   
>The people who are representing the script communities using those 3 
>scripts have claimed that there is a problem to be solved at a protocol 
>level.
>No other script community has made such a claim.

True. But then we (at least me and Shawn, but probably others)
haven't yet been able to verify the claim. (we have verified
the problems, but claim that there is no need for a protocol-
level fix).

Regards,    Martin.



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