Re: Arabic date format and Microsoft programs

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:57:33 +0200
Eli Zaretskii <eliz_at_gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:47:08 +0100
> > From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
> > List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0
> >
> > HTML 4.0 and 4.0.1 Section 8.2 Paragraph 3 Section 2 states, "If a
> > document does not contain a displayable right-to-left character, a
> > conforming user agent is not required to apply the [UNICODE]
> > bidirectional algorithm." The example file contains no
> > right-to-left characters, so application of the bidi algorithm is
> > optional.
>
> What does it mean by "right-to-left character"? Does it mean
> only characters whose bidi type is STRONG R? That is, do characters
> of type Arabic Number not count?

I don't know of an authoritative definition, but as Arabic numbers are
stored left-to-right, and as to distinguish Western Arabic-Indic
digits (AN) from Eastern Arabic-Indic digits (EN) smacks strongly of
the UBA, I would say characters of type AN do not count as
right-to-left characters.

Richard.
Received on Mon Oct 17 2011 - 16:43:35 CDT