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IIII persists on clocks. 7 of the 8 roman numeral clock faces I found in the house just now use IIII. Unicode does not sanction it. There are unicode codes for
by jws 16y ago
IIII persists on clocks. 7 of the 8 roman numeral clock faces I found in the house just now use IIII.
Unicode does not sanction it. There are unicode codes for digits 1 through 12, plus L, C, D, and M, but all my "ROMAN NUMERAL FOUR" (0x2163) are rendered as IV.
- Someone 16y agoThat is not an unicode issue. Unicode does not prescribe anything about glyphs. A font could choose to render 0x2163 as IIII or have a character variant for it that did, if it wanted to.