Re: [alreq] Rules for Arabic numerals in numbered lists

@shervinafshar thanks a lot for the comment and suggestion. In https://github.com/w3c/alreq domain I see myself as facilitator / participant / observer. I plan to contribute to a similar document / working group https://github.com/w3c/hlreq focusing on Hebrew text layout. 

Different numbering systems are used in different Arabic speaking countries. I believe the default is standardized in [CLDR](http://cldr.unicode.org/). Arabic numeric shaping (0123456789 vs. ٠ ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ vs. ...) - appears as part of "Numbering systems" -http://cldr.unicode.org/translation/numbering-systems . For example http://www.unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/bcp47/number.xml or https://github.com/unicode-cldr/cldr-core/blob/master/supplemental/numberingSystems.json have
"٠ ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩" defined as "arab" and "1234567890" defined as "latn". Mapping to locale is done via property <defaultNumberingSystem> which is "arab" for ar (http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/main/ar.xml) but "latn" for ar_MA (http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/main/ar_MA.xml) and ar_DZ (http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/main/ar_DZ.xml)

My goal is to assure proper / optimal user experience in software products. This includes providing  necessary flexibility / control to assure requirements  of Arabic speaking users are addressed. Based on your comments it sounds that it is definitely necessary to be able to author numbered list using both Western Arabic (aka Arabic-European) and Eastern Arabic (aka Arabic-Indic) numerals. It boils down that in different countries (see CLDR above) and under different technological limitations (see your comment on UTF-8 vs ASCII) the default numbering system to be used can be either Western Arabic or Eastern Arabic. However in general it is really up to the author to decide which one better fits his/her needs. And from software perspective both options (Western Arabic or Eastern Arabic) should be available. Please let me know if this conclusion is inaccurate. 

_"redundant bullet"_ is actually a star (*) used in Arabic part as a footnote reference. Not sure why it does not appear in Hebrew one. 



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