Re: Urgent call for clarification of Armenian numbering rules

More from Hrant Papazian on Armenuan numbering:

To distill things:

> 1. is 7000 expressed as Ւ U+0552  or ՈՒ U+0548 U+0552 ?

7000 should ideally be expressed as Ւ U+0552

> 2. is an appropriate default for 'armenian' upper- or lowercase?

Default to uppercase, but allow lc.

> 3. is the glyph that indicates values over 9,999 a circumflex or a line

My educated guess is something like U+055F
If a circumflex has ever been used, it's very rare.
And if I had to choose between a circumflex or a
bar I would choose the bar.

BTW, the use of U+0585 and U+0586 for 10,000
and 20,000 is not uncommon, but I would avoid it
for the reason that 30,000 etc doesn't exist, so it's
not a very elegant scheme. Some purists don't even
like to show U+0585 and U+0586 in the alphabet...

Received on Thursday, 29 January 2009 20:36:35 UTC