Rumi Numeral Symbols is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes (code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
containing numeric characters used in
Fez, Morocco
Fez () or Fes (; ) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fez-Meknes, Fez-Meknes administrative region. It is one of the List of cities in Morocco, largest cities in Morocco, with a population of 1.256 million, according to ...
, and elsewhere in North Africa and the Iberian peninsula, between the tenth and seventeenth centuries.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Rumi Numeral Symbols block:
References
{{reflist
Unicode blocks
Computer-related introductions in 2008
Fez, Morocco
Numerals
Science in al-Andalus
Arabic-language computing