Re: Arabic cursive in Unicode

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:57:42 -0500: Oliver Cromm
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* Ruud Harmsen wrote:

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:50:52 +0100: Andreas Prilop
<nhtcapri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

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.

You want to say that the numbers are "written RTL" (as a result) even
when they are actually written LTR (as a process)?

I don't know how digits are written in Arabic. But it seems logical to
me to write them the same as the letters: right to left. Why do it
otherwise, why switch direction as soon as digits are involved?
Extra advantage: RTL digits have the same order ("six twenty") as the
Arabic words when written out RTL.

Or maybe you mean that the reading of the numbers follows the general
direction of the script? That's true, but definitely not the same claim.

Both claims have the same result in English LTR and Arabic RTL.

my point, which is so simple
and obvious, but apparently very hard to understand.

If I interpret it in the easy way, it's easy - and wrong.

What is untrue in what I wrote in this discussion? Please be specific.

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Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com
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