RE: Not all Arabics are created equal...

[Roozbeh Pournader]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, John Cowan wrote:

> No, what I am trying to nail down is whether the LSD is represented
> first in the Unicode datastream or last.  European digits are represented
> with the MSD first and the LSD last.  What's the story with Arabic
> digits?  Without knowing that, I can't evaluate a string of Arabic
> digits for value.

Numbers in Arabic script are MSD first and LSD last when stored, MSD on
the left end and LSD on the right end when displayed. If you want to
evaluate a string of Arabic digits (U+0660..U+0669, and U+06F0..U+06F9)
you've seen in a character stream for value, do the same as you do for
normal European digits:

        U+0661 U+0662 = U+06F1 U+06F2 = U+0031 U+0032 = 12. 

--roozbeh