On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 03:50:08AM +0200, Isam Bayazidi wrote: > Hi all .. > I have a quick question, we are developing several Arabic enabled software, > and adding Arabic support to already existing ones .. and one of the issues > that we faced is Should we store the numbers in thier Hindi Format or ASCII ? > we know that showing them in what ever look is a matter of preferance, but > what we are asking .. what would be better action to do , to store the digits > displayed in hindi in thier Hindi encodings, or use the Arabic digits defined > in ASCII ( the first 128 places of ISO ) ?
If you're storing numbers as character data, then you should probably store them like you display them, in the local format. If you storing numbers in a file that happen to be serialized as character data, use ASCII and standardize on a format (some European locales use ',' as a decimal point, whereas Americans use '.', the source of many bugs where files written in one locale couldn't be read in another.). -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED], dvdeug/jabber.com (Jabber) Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."
