From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net
Subject: Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion?
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:48:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d442cc9d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091101054444.GA12747@tomas>
> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 06:44:44 +0100
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> Cc: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > > I suspect an arabic person might type
> > >
> > > ثثث(5+4)*9ثثث
> > >
> > > - i.e. hitting ")" first when transcribing "9*(4+5)".
> >
> > Maybe if the digits are Arabic digits. I don't know enough Arabic to
> > judge this example [...]
>
> I don't either, but FWIW, i can say that although Arabic uses different
> glyphs to represent digits, the write direction for numerals is the same
> as in Latin and Hebrew, i.e. most significant digit to the left.
Maybe so, but UAX#9 treats European digits and Arabic digits
differently. They have different bidirectional properties.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-01 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-31 15:57 How to recognize keyboard insertion? Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 16:58 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 17:37 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 17:43 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 19:26 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 20:42 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-10-31 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-31 21:49 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 5:24 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 20:19 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 3:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-01 5:46 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 5:44 ` tomas
2009-11-01 18:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-11-01 20:09 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-02 5:03 ` tomas
2009-11-01 1:30 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-01 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-01 5:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-01 13:59 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-11-01 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <837huac8gg.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-11-02 14:49 ` Ehud Karni
2009-11-02 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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