Hello, In Tunisia, which is a country of North Africa, the first language is Arabic, the second language is French and the third language is English.
Not like, the Middle east Arabic countries, although we use arabic as first language (Mother language), we use always the arbic numbers (0123456789) in the use of the three languages (ar / fr / en). So, childs began to learn arbic numbers and they never learn indian numbers. I suggest the use of the locale in addition to the language : as for Tunisia "ar-tn". Hope that can help. Fahmi Hachicha -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Tu Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Arabic numbers I apologize if this is slightly off topic... We are working on a kid's website that targets 5 languages and one of them is Arabic. We were wondering whether we should be using 0123456789 (arabic numbers) vs ٠١٢٣٤٣٥٦٧٨٩ (indian numbers, I found out that the real Arabic numbers are called indian numbers. :) ) This will mostly be used when a user is entering and ID number to log into the site. On an Arabic keyboard, there is the 'normal' row of arabic numbers 0123456789. But on the same keys they have the corresponding indian numbers, used for Arabic. Can anyone help me understand the usage pattern for Arabic speakers with these hybrid keyboards. (supposedly, some people doing research found that kids learn Indian numbers and then start using Arabic 0123456789 numbers later) - When an Arabic speaker uses their computer and when she types numbers, does the operating system default to 0123456789, or does it default to Arabic numbers? How 'bad' would it be if we required that kids use 0123456789? -James _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
