Oops...<div><br></div><div>I must apologize I don't know how to make my reply appear in the right place.</div><div>In the following my reply starts with the word "lol" and should have been threaded in response to Usama's post and not merged with it as a new topic.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sorry for the confusion. I hope to get it right next time.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards to all,</div><div>Chris</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 December 2010 01:00, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu-rtl-request@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-rtl-request@lists.ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: Directionality without prejudice<br>
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Hi, I've just read Yaron pronunciation of Arabic number and I think it's<br>
totally false. It's all in a slang or not Arabic.<br>
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But you are right that numbers are usually read from right to left.<br>
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Lol - well the idea is to accommodate EVERY dialect of EVERY language,<br>
regardless of what is main stream ;)<br>
The important issue for me seems to be that Unicode standard is telling the<br>
whole wide world R2L speakers write numbers back to front!<br>
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I was completely ignorant of how other cultures do deal with numbers, but<br>
IMHO we ALL write them and read them as is appropriate to our traditions and<br>
locale. Thus instead of imposing a directionality on digits and reversing<br>
their display order for R2L languages IMHO the computer should be told to<br>
PROCESS and to GENERATE them in the order appropriate for the user's locale.<br>
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For instance in my own number formatting routines it was easiest to convert<br>
numeric strings with least significant digit first, but I was working in a<br>
left to right tradition. Yet I DID NOT insert a right to left embedding code<br>
but actually reversed the string I created so that the stream would contain<br>
most significant digits before less significant ones.<br>
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While I appreciate the phenomenal amount of work that the Unicode consortium<br>
is doing... <a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Bidirectional_Character_Types" target="_blank">http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Bidirectional_Character_Types</a><br>
I do feel they are "barking up the wrong tree" and will NEVER get a good<br>
solution that way :(<br>
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