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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/16/20 10:40 AM, Doug Ewell via
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">What I don't understand here is why this is being framed implicitly as a Unicode problem, or an XML problem, or a general law of nature ("why can’t a Bengali-speaking person use the Bengali digits"), instead of an inherent limitation of that particular library function used for that particular language.</pre>
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<p>Yes, exactly. This is "a characteristic of the code libraries,
not a Unicode problem."</p>
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<p>There are probably reasonable reasons not to update the actual
atol/strtol calls, but one could certainly write a library to do
what you're talking about... and apparently someone has, by Bill
Poser's report of his libuninum. There ya go.<br>
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<p>~mark<br>
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