Operations and other mysteries
A blog by Andrew Cowie
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Roman Numerals
Some things about Unicode are really impressive. And some things just make you wonder.
Why are there unicode characters for roman numerals? ie, Why is U+2167 'Ⅷ' better than VIII? And, whoa, thank God that there’s U+216F 'Ⅿ' there, because otherwise I’d have to use the letter 'M' to write ©MMIX.
As we were chatting about this in #gnome-hackers, Xan Lopez found a wikipedia entry about it which seems to say “Only for compatibility” & “do not use”. I can handle that.
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