From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs + unicode + hebrew + bidi
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:28:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4p2nuqoq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hc6n6w41.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org>
> From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
> Copyright: Copyright 2008 James Cloos
> OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6
> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:04:23 -0500
>
> |> The numbers are from left to right
>
> Another way to wor what he says is that the (so-called) Arabic digits
> are big-endian when read LTR and little-endian when read RTL, and that
> regardless of how one actually thinks of them the representation of
> integers is inherently little-endian.
Endianness has nothing to do with LTR and RTL languages.
And you are wrong saying that numbers are little-endian when read RTL,
because many RTL languages read number LTR.
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2008-11-04 15:13 RE: Re: emacs + unicode + hebrew + bidi cyberkm
2008-11-04 21:04 ` James Cloos
2008-11-04 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2008-11-04 16:29 ` Richard Riley
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2008-11-04 15:15 Bourgneuf Francois
2008-11-04 20:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2008-11-04 2:55 ` B. T. Raven
2008-11-04 3:05 ` B. T. Raven
2008-10-30 6:42 Pavel
2008-10-30 15:56 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-30 21:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
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