Re: Arabic cursive in Unicode

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Ruud Harmsen wrote:

Right to left, I suppose. So the direction of reading out number and
of writing them in digits was the same. That was my statement.

I asked three Arabs here and all three told me that they write
the [Arabic-Indic] digits from left to write.

Perhaps Arabs in the Netherlands write in some other fashion ;-)

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