Is there a difference between converting a string of ASCII digits to an integer versus a string of non-ASCII digits to an integer?

[Richard Wordingham]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:45:11 -0800
Markus Scherer via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> I suspect that Roger is just looking at decimal digits (property gc=Nd
> <https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%5B%3Agc%3DNd%3A%5D%26%5B%3Anv%3D4%3A%5D&g=bc&i=>
> ).
> I believe that they can all be parsed like strings of ASCII digits
> (and you can call ICU or other libraries to get at the digit values
> and other properties).
> I suggest you double-check about the RTL digits (N'Ko & Adlam);
> please take a look at the relevant Unicode book chapters.

It looks as though the N'ko section documents the significance by
accident!  I thought a policy was going to be documented (2012 or
slightly later) that decimal digits are stored most significant
digit first, but that doesn't seem to have happened.

Richard.