Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or right-to-left.

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On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, David Tooke wrote:

> dumb question 2. Are there an known cases where the full locale name
> (language+country+variant) has a different directionality as for the root
> language? I know that some languages are written in different scripts
> based on the locale; are there any cases where there are a two scripts that
> have the same language code in their locale but differ in their writing
> direction?

I think Kurdish is written in Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic. And I don't
consider any of them be the root locale. I will be thankful if anyone
comments on Kurdish's case.

--roozbeh

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