Re: Arabic cursive in Unicode


Ruud Harmsen wrote:
23 Nov 2006 01:38:23 -0800: "Danny" <dragon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in
sci.lang:

Actually, it's pretty good so far, handling the presentation forms and
ligatures correctly (we hope - the first translator is going to have a
go today so I'll soon find out if I've got everything wrong). It's not
handling bidirectional yet - a number of Arabic people have told us
'we're quite used to typing our numbers in back to front', although I
doubt we'll be able to get away with it in the long run.

Arabic numerals are actually just as right-to-left as the script: the
Arabic language says six-and-twenty (as do Dutch and German), so it is
in the correct: 26.

so in classical arabic. but in modern arabic it's thousands, hundreds,
units tens.


In English and French etc. the digits _seem_ to be in the right order
because the script's direction _and_ the direction in the language are
reversed. In Dutch and German numerals seem reversed because the
script is reversed, but the languages have it the same as Arabic.

--
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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