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> Arabic and Chinese have their own glyphs for digits. `int` works correctly with all the different ways to write numbers.
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I was not able to reproduce the behaviour (python 3.5.0)

```
>>> from unicodedata import name
>>> name('')
'RUMI DIGIT FIVE'
>>> int('')
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
>>> int('五')  # chinese/japanese number five
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '五'

```

Am I doing something wrong? Or is the claim simply incorrect ([source](http://www.jjinux.com/2012/03/pycon-advanced-python-tutorials.html)).