[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Dec 2 14:36:33 CET 2010

On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 22:28:49 -0500 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Both my personal observations when travelling from Turkey to India and > Wikipedia say yes. "When representing a number in Arabic, the lowest-valued > position is placed on the right, so the order of positions is the same as in > left-to-right scripts." > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Arabiclanguage#Numerals

This matches my limited research on this topic as well. However, I am not sure that when these codes are embedded in Arabic text, their logical order always matches their display order.

That shouldn't matter, since unicode text follows logical order. The display order is up to the graphical representation library.

Regards

Antoine.

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