print arabic characters

Peter Otten __peter__ at web.de
Mon Dec 29 03:31:57 EST 2003


Martin v. Loewis wrote:

[RTL Mini-Howto]

Yup. Your outline made it clear that the problem does not lend itself to a
quick hack that trades simplicity against proper cut-and-paste behaviour.

> Then, for AL runs, you need to replace European numerals with Arabic
> numerals (but keeping the LTR order).
 
I always thought of numbers as most significant digit first. But the above
suggests that they are least significant digit first, preserving the
original RTL directionality.

Peter




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