On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alistair Vining wrote:
> Just so I can follow, is this behaviour that's being discussed derived from
> / parallel to the former British usage whereby 120/- was 120 shillings and
> no pence? I.e. is the mark a solidus?
No. The /-like shape is because Persian digit shapes ar
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Darya Said-Akbari wrote:
> but Michael is right. That is the way how iranian newspapers use the '/' in
> numbers and currencies. So when you distinguish between Novice and
> Professional FARSI speaker you should first revolute the whole iranian
> writing class in not to use
o: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 6:55 AM
Subject: RE: please expand re bidi algorithm
> Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> >
> > in x86 NN 6.0 (and Mozilla for all milestones 13-18), it will format the
> > currency value or 3943.
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
>
> in x86 NN 6.0 (and Mozilla for all milestones 13-18), it will format the
> currency value or 3943.23 as 3,943/23. This is identical to the
> behavior on Windows 2000 and Arabic Win98.
Just so I can follow, is this behaviour that's being discussed derived from
/
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From: "Darya Said-Akbari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: please expand re bidi algorithm
> Sorry Roozbeh,
>
> but Mic
Sorry Roozbeh,
but Michael is right. That is the way how iranian newspapers use the '/' in
numbers and currencies. So when you distinguish between Novice and Professional
FARSI speaker you should first revolute the whole iranian writing class in not to
use the '/' they are used to do.
regards,
D
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> It depends. I was ONLY referring to a currency decimal separator, which is
> *not* U+066B. The monetary decimal separator is indeed U+002F. This can be
> retrieved from the NLS database with the LOCALE_SMONDECIMALSEP flag in a
> call to the W
For people who want the source to this page, feel free to e-mail me.
michka
Michael Kaplan
Trigeminal Software, Inc.
http://www.trigeminal.com/
> You can see the Mozilla behavior by going to the following URL:
>
> http://64.38.165.18/FarsiVsArabic.asp
>
> This takes two Arabic locales and one
From: "Roozbeh Pournader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
>
> > The slash character "/" is in the Unicode Bidi algorithm classified as
> > a "European Separator" which means that text would
> > be expected to be reversed (i.e. 1/2 would be expected to be 2/
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> The slash character "/" is in the Unicode Bidi algorithm classified as
> a "European Separator" which means that text would
> be expected to be reversed (i.e. 1/2 would be expected to be 2/1). However,
> the the Farsi language (which uses the
No, its not that at all. It is just that many products have a long history
of connection with the people who use the product who also happen to have a
bidirectional language as their native one. Many other products have a
development team with that expertise.
One example can be found in Mozilla (
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