On Feb 23, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
David Haslam <d.has...@ukonline.co.uk> writes:
Is this covered in the Xiphos manual?
No. It's very special case, Farsi only, not meaningful to anyone not
using LC_ALL=fa. Besides, I keep being told that nobody reads
manuals,
and had that demonstrated to me again this past weekend.
Generalization to other LC_ALL=XX would take an hour or so, and would
require that I know where the per-language base point of zero is.
E.g.,
in Farsi, it's "\333\260".
Actually, you need to know the number 9. Some numbering systems don't
have a zero. I don't have a clue as to which, but I found this nugget
in the icu code as I was seeing how they do number shaping.
A significant limitation is that while "non-Latinate" digits display
correctly in text verse numbers and in the navbars, the main navbar
editable display of the current verse still displays regular digits,
at
least until the engine gains parsing capability for all those other
locales. That is, this is an output/viewer capability, not an input
capability.
What we do for BD is to "shape" the number in both directions. That is
when we display the number and also when we take the displayed input
value and use it.
This allows for inputs to be both Farsi/Arabic and also 0-9.
In Him,
DM
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