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

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 22:50:47 CET 2010

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:14 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote: ..

Have you tried Google ?

I tried google at I could not find any plain text or HTML file that would use Arabic-Indic numerals. What was interesting, though that a search for "quran unicode" (without quotes). Brought me to http://www.sacred-texts.com which says that they've been using unicode since 2002 in their archives. Interestingly enough, their version of Qur'an uses ordinary digits for ayah numbers. See, for example <http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/uq/050.htm>.

I will change my mind on this issue when you present a machine-readable file with Arabic-Indic numerals and a program capable of reading it and show that this program uses the same number parsing algorithm as Python's int() or float().

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