Different Bidirectional Character Types

Richard Wordingham richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com
Thu Jul 14 15:59:08 CDT 2022


On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:49:06 +0100
r12a via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:

> Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote on 13/07/2022 20:51:
> > What are these historical scripts with the most significant digit on
> > the right?  
> 
> Go to
> https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=[:Bidi_Class=Right_To_Left:]
> and find sections that contain "Numbers".
> 
> The list includes Imperial Aramaic, Palmyrene, Nabataean, etc...

But I see no ancient digits, and very much nothing that TUS calls a
digit. The Mende Kikakui 'digits' would qualify, except that they're a
20th century system.

Richard.


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