From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion? Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:48:14 +0200 Message-ID: <83d442cc9d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vdhvd096.fsf@gnu.org> <4AEC6CC5.3010009@harpegolden.net> <83skczcwes.fsf@gnu.org> <4AEC75C3.900@harpegolden.net> <83r5sjctup.fsf@gnu.org> <20091101054444.GA12747@tomas> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257101325 13541 80.91.229.12 (1 Nov 2009 18:48:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 18:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, david@harpegolden.net To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 01 19:48:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N4fTh-00035m-HD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:48:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51747 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4fTe-0002Fi-4t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:48:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4fTY-0002FL-AQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:48:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4fTS-0002Et-QS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:48:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52389 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4fTS-0002Eq-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:48:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:62771) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4fTS-0005VY-4N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:48:22 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KSG00J001FG2E00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:48:12 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.37.193]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KSG00JW91KB1D00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:48:12 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20091101054444.GA12747@tomas> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:116559 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 06:44:44 +0100 > From: tomas@tuxteam.de > Cc: David De La Harpe Golden , emacs-devel@g= nu.org >=20 > > > I suspect an arabic person might type > > >=20 > > > =D8=AB=D8=AB=D8=AB(5+4)*9=D8=AB=D8=AB=D8=AB > > >=20 > > > - i.e. hitting ")" first when transcribing "9*(4+5)". > >=20 > > Maybe if the digits are Arabic digits. I don't know enough Arabi= c to > > judge this example [...] >=20 > I don't either, but FWIW, i can say that although Arabic uses diffe= rent > 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.