We don't have that as a policy ( http://www.unicode.org/policies/property_value_stability_table.html). It's worth proposing via the feedback form, because that is the expectation.
------------------------------ Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033> * * *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* ** On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 05:18, Richard Wordingham < [email protected]> wrote: > Is it anywhere stated as policy that numbers written by a string of > decimal digits will be encoded with the most significant digit first in > storage order? I couldn't find it stated anywhere. > > As positional notation only seems to have been invented and propagated > once or twice (Babylonian and Indian inventions), it is perhaps not > surprising that almost all decimal positional systems have the most > significant digit on the left, and so the digits have Bidi classes EN, > AN or L. The one exception is the N'ko script, and consequently its > digits have the Bidi class R. (I can't guarantee that this is the > reason that led to their Bidi class.) > > Richard. > >
