I agree with Roozbeh. It also uses Arabic shapes of numbers, which is
not suitable for Persian texts. But it is good to know about this
feature, anyway.
Best
-ali-
Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
This behavior is of course considered very bad practice, and is not
recommended in any standards. It would also limit one to be able to
display European numbers at all.
So, I would recommend not to turn on the feature, and nag to the
webadmins instead to use Persian digits in their Persian documents.
roozbeh
On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 21:31 +0430, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
Hi all,
I just found something cool in Firefox which I had not come across
before, and thought some of you guys might not know it as well. As far
as I can tell this is related to Gecko, so it must affect all Mozilla
based applications, though I have not tested it anywhere except Firefox 1.0.
The default rendering behavior for numbers appearing inside Persian text
in Mozilla is to show them as Latin digits (1 2 3 ...), though in IE it
depends on the context (whether the direction of the containing text is
rtl or ltr.) To make Firefox respect the direction of the text in this
regard, you can add the following line to your user.js file:
user_pref("bidi.numeral", 1);
which sets the number rendering mode to "context." This enables ASCII
digits entered inside Persian text to be rendered as Persian numbers (Û
Û Û ...) Of course this does not affect the behavior of rendering
numbers explicitly entered using Unicode character codes.
FWIW,
Ehsan
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