in reply to Parsing human notations of numbers

If you end up publishing something, don't forget that besides the latin1 fractions ¼ ½ ¾ there are additional unicode fractions: ⅓ ⅔ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞