On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 04:46:08PM +0100, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > > Khaled Hosny wrote: > > >"Once again people fell into the trap of believing the rules their > >language is using are universal." > > -- Some wise person writing GNU gettext manual[1] > > > >[1] > >http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html#Plural-forms > > Well, to be fair to Herb, he /was/ referring to SI > ("Systeme Internationale") which (of course) his own > country has not adopted, along with Burma and Liberia !
Not strictly his language, but lets the say the languages he is subjected too. I know plenty of places in the world where metric system is used and still nobody would naturally write 1mm in a native document Even more, here in Egypt you can't use the western Arabic numbers in an official paper as it is considered foreign numbers, you have to use the eastern Arabic ones. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
