On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:52:36PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2005-08-18 21:53:47 +0200, Branko Čibej wrote:
> > Mike Stump wrote:
> [...]
> > > printf ("%d", i);
> [...]
> > Now imagine that the output of the original program depends on the
> > locale that's in force at execution time, which defines numberic
> > output to be in arabic numerals (real ones, not the sort we see in
> > ASCII).
>
> Is it possible? I would have thought that only the decimal-point
> character depends on the locale.
The digits we use come from the Arabs, and look much the same in Arabic.
Check an Arabic-language site, for example http://www.aljazeera.net/ .
