Re: Arabic cursive in Unicode

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:50:52 +0100: Andreas Prilop
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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.

Even if that's true (doesn't seem practical), it is still irrelevant.
My point was that Arabic 11-99 numerals have the same order when
spoken out aloud and when written as digits, both RTL. For English
21-99, the same is true for LTR.
For Dutch and German 11-99, LTR do not correspond because we write LTR
but in the language have the same order as in Arabic.

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

I don't know, but it is irrelevant for my point, which is so simple
and obvious, but apparently very hard to understand.
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Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com
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