From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion? Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 06:44:44 +0100 Message-ID: <20091101054444.GA12747@tomas> References: <83vdhvd096.fsf@gnu.org> <4AEC6CC5.3010009@harpegolden.net> <83skczcwes.fsf@gnu.org> <4AEC75C3.900@harpegolden.net> <83r5sjctup.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257054091 28865 80.91.229.12 (1 Nov 2009 05:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 05:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, David De La Harpe Golden To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 01 06:41:23 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 1N4TBq-0005wC-Fq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:41:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4TBp-0003wU-OS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4TBe-0003vq-Dr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:41:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N4TBZ-0003uR-48 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36510 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N4TBY-0003uK-PV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:35366 helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4TBW-0002eE-Ps; Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:41:02 -0400 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C433D90008; Sun, 1 Nov 2009 06:44:44 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <83r5sjctup.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:116548 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 08:15:58PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:37:07 +0000 > > From: David De La Harpe Golden [...] > > =D8=AB=D8=AB=D8=AB9*)4+5(=D8=AB=D8=AB=D8=AB > > - but that was when I typed the expression as if LtR (i.e. hitting 9=20 > > first) >=20 > This is how digits and other mathematical expressions are typed in > bidirectional text. >=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 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. Regards - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFK7SBMBcgs9XrR2kYRAgNEAJ0dkBlhLxLZ26PoFJ4kMf0Pbg8BFgCfRHFu iql3sxmw8+BKk/pwOoYk2tg=3D =3DdJQ5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----