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At least that much is correct. Quoth the Unicode Standard:
> For most purposes, it is preferable to compose the Roman numerals from sequences of the appropriate Latin letters.
[from https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ch15.pdf]
Note that Unicode has a lot of characters like this — compatibility forms which are present to allow lossless conversion to/from other character sets, but shouldn’t be used in any new text.
I didn't actually realise they're letters. To me it's distinct symbols just like 0 is a distinct ascii symbol from O.
Now that you mention it, I realise that I knew that five is V and M is a thousand or something, but the symbol for one/1, is that actually defined as a capital i and not just a line of some form? Since surely the digit for one came before the latin script
It's quite possible the "I"s started out as just a line to mark one item before the shorthand was developed, but certainly over time it became identified to capital "I".
This is both visually accurate and not a forced download for me using Safari.
Not if you configure your browser correctly? Why would you allow random sites to save files without even prompting you for it?
Chrome iirc popularised automatic downloading for all file types but I'm using Firefox.
What browser do you use that has a "force inline viewing of downloads rather than downloading them" option? I'd like that
Edit: wait, this server doesn't actually send the content-disposition:attachment header. Why doesn't Firefox download this to /tmp/mozilla_${USER}0 and open the default viewer as it does for other files that aren't downloads?!