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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/29/2020 11:58 AM, Richard
Wordingham via Unicode wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 11:28:23 -0800
Markus Scherer via Unicode <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode@unicode.org"><unicode@unicode.org></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">What effort? Given basic Unicode support in many programming
languages and libraries, it takes minutes to go from parsing ASCII
digits to parsing any & all decimal digits.
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This seems to be the basic issue. It's simple and quick if you want
to to do it.
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There's probably code that relies on non-ASCII digits not being treated
the same way as ASCII digits.
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<p>Your input field may need to be configured to allow certain sets
of digits in certain contexts. That will depend on who your target
audience is.</p>
<p>Because all input uses some data validation, I wouldn't expect to
be able to enter dates or numbers in any random format everywhere.<br>
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<p>That's different from whether or not it's possible for someone
targeting me to offer me to enter data in my preferred form.</p>
<p>It's Unicode's business to provide a universal definition
(encoding) of any digit, not to get into the question of who
prefers to use what and when and whether implementers see a
business case for catering to the preferences of their clients.</p>
<p>It's also Unicode's (separate) business to provide the
information needed to parse numbers, at least for decimal
place-value systems, and included in that, to collect data on
locale preference for number formatting.</p>
<p>And that's where the story, and this discussion, effectively
ends.</p>
<p>A./<br>
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