Devanagari int literals [was Re: Should non-security 2.7 bugs be fixed?]

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 9:13:49 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > BTW my boys have just mailed me their latest:
> >
> >>>> 九.九九
> >
> > 9.99
> >
> > Can some unicode/Chinese literate person inform me whether
> > that ideograph is equivalent to roman '9' or roman 'nine'?
> 
> I'm not Chinese-literate, but I know how to dig up info from the
> Unicode side of things.
> 
> '\u4e5d' CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E5D
> 
> Thanks, very helpful.
> 
> Perhaps slightly more useful:
> 
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D
> 
> But it still doesn't disambiguate digit vs word.
> 
> Playing around with Google Translate suggests that it functions mostly
> like a digit; 九九 means "Ninety-nine" and 九八 means "Ninety-eight". But
> I'll leave further confirmation to someone who fits your second
> description.
> 
> ChrisA

Well Cant make much sense of it:

>>> import unicodedata as ud
>>> ud.numeric('२')
2.0
>>> ud.category('२')
'Nd'
>>> ud.numeric('九')
9.0
>>> ud.category('九')
'Lo'
>>>