Shaun McCance wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 00:09 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:This is an interesting question. The issue here is that there is no single codepoing to represent ÏÏ.
Shaun McCance wrote:
Indeed, it is ok to go up to 999,999.So here's the Wikipedia entry on Greek numerals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_numerals
Would you consider its definition of the Ionic numeral system to be correct? Would you prefer ÏÂ or ÏÏÂ be used for 6? Also, I don't think I've ever seen a document with a million sections, so I'm going to assume it's all right for me to stop trying after 999,999.
For number 6 please use ÏÏÂ
For 90 and 900, use the standard Ancient Greek symbols. In practical terms I believe those two numbers will not pop up very often.
It is the most common in modern Greek, though there are some occurences of ÏÂ.
(Source: http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n1938.pdf)
Quick question: An inverted acute is placed before a character to make it larger by a factor of 1000. So ÎÂ is 4, but ,ÎÂ is 4000. All well and good. But then, we're using ÏÏ instead of Ï for 6. There's no ambiguity there, because Ï and Ï are both digits in the 100s places, so they would never otherwise appear together.
But now, what do we do when we want 6000? Is it jut ,ÏÏÂ or
do we prefix both characters, as in ,Ï,ÏÂ? With the former,
it's not clear if it means ,ÏÂ = 6000 or ,ÏÂ + ÏÂ = 200300.
Do I prefix both characters?
Thus, please use ,ÏÂ for 6000.
Cheers, Simos