Re: Arabic cursive in Unicode

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Ruud Harmsen wrote:

I don't know how digits are written in Arabic.

From your message <news:dllcm2p9jlhvnhrtr3ddo5d27dbivjc73v@xxxxxxx> :

| 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.

Now what? Do you know or don't you know?

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?

C'est la vie! Don't argue with logic for languages.

.

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