Re: arabic number in bidi algorithm

From: peter_constable@sil.org
Date: Wed Nov 03 1999 - 23:16:01 EST


       Gregg wrote:
>To cut a long story short, it makes perfect sense to construe
       Arabic numeric forms as right-to-left; they just happen to put
       the least significant digit first.

       That occurred to me some time ago, but I abandoned the idea
       when I learned that native writers actually write the most
       significant digit first, as a few contributors have mentioned
       recently.

       Peter



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