[WMASTERS] Re: Tamil numerals (fwd)

[Leong Kok Yong <ccelky@valentine.irdu.nus.sg>]

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 03:15:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Everson <everson@indigo.ie>
To: Multiple Recipients of <unicode@unicode.org>
Subject: Re: Tamil numerals

>At 07:31 PM 9/18/97 -0700, Leong Kok Yong wrote:
>>I would like to know what's the purpose of the inclusion of Tamil
>>numerals in the Tamil range in Unicode?

The non-decimal numbers were encoded because they exist, though they may
not be used on, for instance, calculators these days. :-)

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