- From: Christos Cheretakis <xalkina@otenet.gr>
- Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:53:59 +0200
- To: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-style-0005@earth.li>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Tim Bagot wrote: > At 2002-11-12T03:27+0200, Christos Cheretakis wrote:- > > > The upper-greek and lower-greek list styles in the WD do not represent > numbering systems - they are alphabetic list styles, and I have seen both > of them used in English text. > I'm not sure I understand the difference in use of those two. How could they be used in english text? Numbering what? They wouldn't be used in greek anyways :) > > > My limited (and slightly rusty) knowledge of ancient Greek agrees with > Christopher Hoess on these code points for lower-ionic-greek. > > > This table differs in the characters used for all numerals >= 90. > To my biggest surprise, there are quite a lot of differences between the modern and ancient numbering systems!!! The two tables I sent (up to 799) are the ones used in the lower-modern-greek & upper-modern-greek schemes respectively. Still trying to find details on the ancient greek systems. > > Tim Bagot > C/ -- Λες κι η στάθμη της αγάπης πάει να βρει Πόσοι κρύβονται στη λάσπη θησαυροί Πως κοπήκανε στα δάχτυλα οι σταυροί Γι' ανθρώπων έργα...
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