Request to register business in Indigenous language denied by B.C. government

Re:Request to register business in Indigenous language denie... by nickff on Thursday March 25, 2021 @04:31PM (#26585003)

If you're being pedantic, modern English uses Latin script and Arabic numerals in addition to a variety of special characters. English and French use alphabets which are derived from the Latin alphabet. The Wiki pages on the subject are quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_script

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Re:Request to register business in Indigenous language denie... by gumby on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:23PM (#26586930)

> If you're being pedantic, modern English uses ... Arabic numerals...

Well, if you want to be super pedantic:

Arabic numerals look like this:

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

٩ ٨ ٧ ٦ ٥ ٤ ٣ ٢ ١ ٠

and appear little-endian when reading.

The ones we use come from devanagari (brahmic) alphabets and look generally like this (though they arrived in Europe via islamic scholarship, hence the common name in some languages)

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

० १ २ ३ ४ ५ ६ ७ ८ ९

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Re:Request to register business in Indigenous language denie... by wavefunction on Friday March 26, 2021 @06:58PM (#26597999)

I am always looking to be more pedantic so I appreciate this

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