Rumi Numeral System Symbols, Additional characters proposed to Unicode

A special numeral system rumi has been in use in North Africa since the Xe century. It remained in use until the XVIIe century. This system has been especially used in the administration of the city of Fez in Morocco. It has also been used in Al-Andalusians, Spain, starting from the XIIe century. The forms of the digits are quiet di erent from the Arabic or the Arabic-Indic digits in use today. "The rumi numeral system originates in the Coptic or at least the GreekCoptic tradition. The exact date when it was viewed as a system unto itself that is, not a Coptic or Graeco-Coptic borrowing has not yet been determined. rumi is used in foliation, chapters, and quire notations in a variety of manuscripts (including religious, scienti c, accounting, and mathematical works) and on astronomical instruments. As such, encoding rumi will be very helpful for researchers in the history of mathematics, astronomy, and science in general, particularly as it was used for several hundred years." The system of numeration wasn't really neither decimal nor positional. rumi use some special symbols (see Table 1, Table 2, Table 3 and Table 4). Some examples are available (see Table 5, Table 6 and Table 7). This system