Re: Arabic cursive in Unicode


Ruud Harmsen wrote:
Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:57:42 -0500: Oliver Cromm
<lispamateur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

* 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.

People who _do_ know have been telling you.

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?

Why should "logic" have anything to do with it?

They wrote the numbers the way they were taught to write them by the
scholars who introduced the writing of numbers into Arabic writing.

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