[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database (original) (raw)

Neil Hodgson nyamatongwe at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 13:40:45 CET 2010

Stephen J. Turnbull:

Here's why: '''print "%d" % someinteger''' doesn't now, and never will (unless Kristan gets his Python 2.8), produce Arabic or Han numerals.  Not in any language I know of, not in Microsoft Excel, and definitely not in Python 2.

While I don't have Excel to test with, OpenOffice.org Calc will display in Arabic or Han numerals using the NatNum format codes. http://www.scintilla.org/ArabicNumbers.png

Ditto Arabic, I would imagine; ISO 8859/6 (aka Latin/Arabic) does not contain the Arabic digits that have been presented here earlier AFAICT.  Note that there's plenty of space for them in that code table (eg, 0xB0-0xB9 is empty).  Apparently nobody ever thought it was useful to have them!

DOS code page 864 does use 0xB0-0xB9 for ٠ .. ٩. http://www.ascii.ca/cp864.htm

Neil

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