Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

[Asmus Freytag (t)]

Unless there is a value in documenting the value of the numerator and 
denominator, in which case this should be prominently explained in the 
documentation. Or is that written down somewhere already?

A./



On 3/28/2015 1:05 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
> In the 8.0 Beta files, some numerical values are not reduced to their 
> lowest forms.  Is there a compelling reason that
>
> 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R;;;;6/12;N;;;;;
>
> is not written as
>
> 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R;;;;1/2;N;;;;;
>
> given that there is also a
>
> 109BD;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION ONE HALF;No;0;R;;;;1/2;N;;;;;
>
> Aren't the numeric values of U+109FB and U+109BD the same?
>
> Existing software that looks at the numeric values of characters is 
> written expecting that rational numbers will have been reduced to 
> their lowest form.
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