RE: Arabic number in bidi algorithm

From: Mark Leisher (mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 02 1999 - 08:55:49 EST


    Marco> If a text file contains, in this order: U+0661 ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT
    Marco> ONE U+0662 ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO U+0663 ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE
    Marco> What is the numerical value of the number:
    Marco> "one-hundred-twenty-three" or "three-hundreds-twenty-one"?

    Marco> And, similarly, if a text file contains, in this order: U+06F1
    Marco> EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ONE U+06F2 EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT
    Marco> TWO U+06F3 EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE What is the numerical
    Marco> value of the number: "one-hundred-twenty-three" or
    Marco> "three-hundreds-twenty-one"?

In both cases, "one-hundred-twenty-three."
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