From numa@rp.open.cs.fujitsu.co.jp Fri Dec 12 06:44:13 1997 Received: from ratatosk.DK.net (root@ratatosk.DK.net [193.88.44.22]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id GAA00195; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 06:44:10 +0100 Received: from fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp (fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp [164.71.1.133]) by ratatosk.DK.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id FAA18809; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 05:58:15 +0100 Received: from fdmmail.fujitsu.co.jp by fgwmail.fujitsu.co.jp (8.8.8+2.7Wbeta7/3.6Wbeta7-MX971031-Fujitsu Mail Gateway) id NAA27884; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 13:54:48 +0900 (JST) Received: from wknight.rp.open.cs.fujitsu.co.jp by fdmmail.fujitsu.co.jp (8.8.7+2.7Wbeta7/3.5Wpl3-971107-Fujitsu Domain Mail Master) id NAA21879; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 13:54:16 +0900 (JST) Received: by wknight.rp.open.cs.fujitsu.co.jp (Smail3.1.29.1 #5) id m0xgN78-0000K2C; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 13:54:14 +0900 Message-Id: From: numa@rp.open.cs.fujitsu.co.jp (NUMATA Toshinori) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 13:54:14 +0900 In-Reply-To: <199712111833.TAA09400@dkuug.dk> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: keld@dkuug.dk, unicode@unicode.org Subject: Re: (posix 3411) (i18n.418) 3007 IDEOGRAPHIC NUMBER ZERO Cc: i18n@dkuug.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In the message as of Dec 11 19:32, keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes: > A question about U3007 IDEOGRAPHIC NUMBER ZERO: Is this character used > as a digit, and how wide is this use, if any? In Japan, it is used when expressing numbers of several digits, such as 4-digit year numbers and telephone numbers, in vertically written text combined with other ideographic numbers. For example, the first year of the 21st century can be written as follows: U4E8C U3007 U3007 U4E00 U5E74 two zero zero one year If there are lots of numbers in a document, we can write whole text horizontally and use Western-style digits. For example, most text in a Japanese newspaper is written vertically and ideographic numbers are used, but the table of stock prices in the same newspaper is written horizontally using Western-style digits. -- NUMATA Toshinori Planning Dept. 1, Research and Planning Div., Software Group, FUJITSU LIMITED Phone: +81-45-476-4587 (x4169) Fax: +81-45-476-4749