Re: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-12-04 Thread Darya Said-Akbari
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,

RE: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-12-04 Thread Alistair Vining
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 /

Re: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-12-04 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
ot;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 3943.23 as 3,943/23. This is identical to the

RE: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-12-04 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
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 are

Re: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-10-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
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

Re: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-10-03 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
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

Re: please expand re bidi algorithm

2000-10-02 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
CTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 7:27 PM Subject: please expand re bidi algorithm Dear Michka and List: Please elaborate on what you said belowyou mean there are multiple technical approaches to bidi, something like that?Do bidi algorithms have a long history in the world o