----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jony Rosenne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 4:00 PM Subject: Re: Multiple Directions (was: Re: Coptic/Greek (Re: Phoenician))
> Jony Rosenne scripsit: > > > However, in Hebrew and Arabic, numbers are written left to right and so > > are Latin and other LTR script quotations. So RTL really means mixed > > direction, and the bidi algorithm is there to handle it automatically > > with little user intervention. > > BTW, Peter Daniels told me viva voce that arabophones, like persophones > and hebraeophones, do (hand)write numbers LTR starting with the most > significant digit. But we still have no confirmation from a native > arabophone. Sounds plausible. I do write numbers like 21 RTL, that's how I pronounce them. eenentwintig einundzwanzig So if people pronounce it as twenty-one esriem we achad then they probably indeed write the digit 2 first.
