Hi, all you Unicoders.
Daniel Yacob who has submitted a couple of patches for the Perl Unicode
support (especially patches related to syllabaries like Ethiopic and
several Amer-Indian languages), expressed wonderment over the fact
that currently the \d a.k.a. \p{IsDigit} a.k.a. [[:digit:]] does not
match *all* the digits, that is, digits not only the 0-9 beckoning
to us from the ASCII world, but also things like
00B2;SUPERSCRIPT TWO;No;0;EN;<super> 0032;2;2;2;N;SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT TWO;;;;
00B3;SUPERSCRIPT THREE;No;0;EN;<super> 0033;3;3;3;N;SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT THREE;;;;
00B9;SUPERSCRIPT ONE;No;0;EN;<super> 0031;1;1;1;N;SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT ONE;;;;
...
0966;DEVANAGARI DIGIT ZERO;Nd;0;L;;0;0;0;N;;;;;
0967;DEVANAGARI DIGIT ONE;Nd;0;L;;1;1;1;N;;;;;
0968;DEVANAGARI DIGIT TWO;Nd;0;L;;2;2;2;N;;;;;
0969;DEVANAGARI DIGIT THREE;Nd;0;L;;3;3;3;N;;;;;
...
1369;ETHIOPIC DIGIT ONE;Nd;0;L;;1;1;1;N;;;;;
136A;ETHIOPIC DIGIT TWO;Nd;0;L;;2;2;2;N;;;;;
136B;ETHIOPIC DIGIT THREE;Nd;0;L;;3;3;3;N;;;;;
136C;ETHIOPIC DIGIT FOUR;Nd;0;L;;4;4;4;N;;;;;
...
What say you?
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