Tamil: Numbers, dates, etc.

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2.7 Numbers, dates, etc

Comment from Muthu:

The usage of Tamil numerals has fallen out of common usage, though we do find them used occasionally by a few. ASCII numerals are used in common practice, and thus should be the default or fallback when there are no options available.

ta_my and ta_sg follows the English number format (123,456,789,000) and do not follow the number format used in ta_in and ta_lk.

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  alolita: tamil numerals only used in classical texts?
  muthu: correct
  ... i think also in malayalam and telugu not used
  ... in kannada they are used
  alolita: should both be available?
  muthu: generally only ascii needed, but it would be nice to have an option for users to use native numbers
  ... there are some who may want to read in tamil numerals
  alolita: how about in calendars?
  muthu: all ascii for tamil
  <alolita> richard: originally tamil did not have a zero
  richard: if people want to use tamil numerals would they use per a decimal based system
  muthu: yes
  <alolita> muthu: the old books from 50+ years have tamil numerals
  neha: if i want to display numbers in tamil there should be some tag to change numbers to tamil
  muthu: if such a tag is not provided, then ascii numbers should be used
  neha: that is a gap right now - no tag to switch to tamil numerals
  alolita: we have noted that there is a gap that needs to be addressed
  muthu: all the ta locales are the same, including sinhalese