Mixing of AN and EN (Re: Protocol-08 (and status of Defs-04 andRationale-06))

Martin Duerst duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
Thu Dec 18 01:56:37 CET 2008


At 17:02 08/12/17, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>Alireza Saleh skrev:

>> Besides, Would you please tell me if it is correct for numbers to be 
>> displayed in RTL order.As far as I know, the numbers should be 
>> displayed in LTR order even in RTL languages. At least I'm sure about 
>> Persian, Arabic and Urdu.
>To be extremely precise:
>
>In all cases I know of, the most significant digit goes on the left. I 
>have heard verbal reports that some people actually write the least 
>significant digit first, but I have also seen with my own eyes (in 
>Egypt) people writing the most significant digit first while writing 
>Arabic-Indic numerals; this would mean that they write the numbers 
>left-to-right when writing a text that's otherwise right-to-left.
>
>Whether the ones who write the least significant digit first consider 
>the numbers to be displayed left-to-right or right-to-left .... I don't 
>know.

In German, the lowest digit (unit) is pronounced before the second-lowest
(tens). I remember I used to write the unit digit before the tens digit
at one point, because it fit pronunciation. I didn't know about bidi
at that time, so I can't say what I considered being the "writing direction".

Regards,    Martin.


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