Why no non-latin TODIGIT mappings in UTF-8.src ?

[Andrey Chernov]

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 08:40:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Zenker wrote:
> 
> So, can anyone clue me in why this has been handled this way? It appears
> to me that the possibilities of localization are quite limited as soon
> as languages in non-latin scripts come into play. Are these problems
> usually handled in individual applications then?

IMHO this is for for historic practice converting between digit/char using 
- '0'
and
+ '0'
Monotonic sequence requirement is another confirmation.
BTW, this originally comes from ISO C standard, POSIX only inherits it.
Possibilities of localization are limited in a lot ways besides that one.

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