Follow-up from Tuesday's discussion of digits in the Latin and Arabic Script blocks

[Harald Alvestrand]

>
> Which brings me to true love, or the similarity of the "eastern 
> arabic-indic" character for the digit "5" and the apparently human glyph 
> for "heart", and also "emoji" enjoyed by CJK script users, and 
> conceivably by Cree Syllabics and other script users. I suppose an 
> emoticon is appropriate here, so ";-)".
>
>
> There is, in the .ir namespace, a label which contains 
> "from-my-heart-to-your-heart", with each "eastern arabic-indic" digit 
> "5" rendered (correctly) as a heart.
>
>   
Since the IDNA2008 effort long ago decided to ban symbols, including the 
11 "heart" symbols in Unicode (all of which are class "So"), fairness 
would dictate that we give no special consideration to use of numbers as 
symbols outside their linguistic context.

                    Harald