On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 07:11:33AM -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, Roman M . Parparov wrote:
>
> To explain for those who haven't handled a RTL language, numbers look
> the same as in LTR for most RTL languages, and I believe numerical
> prefixes also appear the same.
>
Yes, the numbers representation including the minus, the comma, the
dot and the per cent are written in the regular order.
> The number is 1,358.
>
> alrqm ?w 1,358.
>
> Or, to compensate for a LTR display,
>
> .1,358 w? mqrla
>
> Also,
>
> .-1,358% w? roala mqrla
>
> I've never done anything but the simplest math in Arabic, so I don't
> know if evaluation order is reversed.
>
> x = 4 / 8;
>
> 1/2? Or 2?
This is a tough one. But it is known that the numerical game scores and
likewise are being written RTL. As for math, I've seen it being written
both ways. I am not a native hebrew speaker and I consulted some natives
at work and no consensus was reached. It means some expanded and very
precise spec should be written on how a pure RTL and RTL with portions of
LTR have to look like.
Besides, speaking of Arabic, they do have even their own digits, but then,
I think they behave just like letters.
> Perhaps a sub-list to hash out how we can do this without bloating Perl
> too much?
>
I think not at this stage. We need to decide how important this is for
PERL and after we're done with ths more or less general stage,
we'll roll out the Specs and then it'd be possible to start coding.
Currently, an item for the discussion IMHO is - whether to empower
existing print to handle visual RTL output, whether to write a core
output function rtlprint, or to reduce ourselves to a Text:: module?
I.e. - WHAT are we going to do, but not yet - HOW.
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> Bryan C. Warnock
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