Meroitic cursive fractions numerical values

[Karl Williamson]

On 03/28/2015 02:25 PM, Asmus Freytag (t) wrote:
> 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.

It seems to me that the character name provides sufficient documentation 
of the numerator and denominator


  Or is that written down somewhere already?
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> 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
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>> 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R;;;;6/12;N;;;;;
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>> is not written as
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>> 109FB;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION SIX TWELFTHS;No;0;R;;;;1/2;N;;;;;
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>> given that there is also a
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>> 109BD;MEROITIC CURSIVE FRACTION ONE HALF;No;0;R;;;;1/2;N;;;;;
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>> Aren't the numeric values of U+109FB and U+109BD the same?
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>> 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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