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Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:07:19 +0300<br>From: Usama Akkad <<a href="mailto:uahello@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">uahello@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: Directionality without prejudice<br>To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-rtl@lists.ubuntu.com" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204); ">ubuntu-rtl@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>
Message-ID: <1292123239.2241.6.camel@localhost.localdomain><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"<br><br>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>
<br>But you are right that numbers are usually read from right to left.<br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Lol - well the idea is to accommodate EVERY dialect of EVERY language, regardless of what is main stream ;)</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">The important issue for me seems to be that Unicode standard is telling the whole wide world </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">R2L speakers write numbers back to front!</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">I was completely ignorant of how other cultures do deal with numbers, but IMHO we ALL write them and read them as is appropriate to our traditions and locale. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Thus instead of imposing a directionality on digits and reversing their display order for R2L languages IMHO the computer should be told to PROCESS and to GENERATE them </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">in the order appropriate for the user's locale.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">For instance in my own number formatting routines it was easiest to convert numeric strings with least significant digit first, but I was working in a left to right tradition. Yet I DID NOT insert a right to left embedding code but actually reversed the string I created so that the stream would contain most significant digits before less significant ones.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">While I appreciate the phenomenal amount of work that the Unicode consortium is doing... </span></font><a href="http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Bidirectional_Character_Types">http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Bidirectional_Character_Types</a> </div>
<div>I do feel they are "barking up the wrong tree" and will NEVER get a good solution that way :(</div></div><br>