- From: Rasha Morgan <rasham@eg.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 14:09:45 +0300
- To: public-iri@w3.org, duerst@w3.org
- Cc: "Matitiahu Allouche" <matial@il.ibm.com>, "Ahmed Talaat" <AHMEDT@eg.ibm.com>, "Gilan Felfela" <gilanf@eg.ibm.com>, "Tarek Abou Aly" <Tarek_Abou-Ali@eg.ibm.com>
Hello Martin, Regarding numeric shapes in the browser, they should follow the system settings, so if it is contextual or national they should appear in Arabic digits. Otherwise they should appear in European digits. So Netscape is working properly, please don't ask to disable this feature. also IE behaves the same way. Numeric shapes are part of the country culture and should not be deprecated. Have a nice day Rasha Morgan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Hardest victory is victory over self. Aristotle ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advisory Globalization Specialist, team leader IBM Egypt Branch, Pyramids Heights, Building No. 10 22 Km. Cairo - Alex. Desert Road, Guiza, Egypt. Tel: SB: +202 5392539 ext 1409 DID: +202 536 1409 Fax. +20 2 539 2505 E-mail : rasham@eg.ibm.com VM : RASHAM at IBMEG http://ctdc.cairo.ibm.com/CairoTDCWebsite/home.jsp ----- Forwarded by Rasha Morgan/Egypt/IBM on 06/05/2003 01:18 ã ----- ----- Forwarded by Ahmed Talaat/Egypt/IBM on 04/05/2003 12:47 ã ----- ---------------------- Forwarded by Matitiahu Allouche/Israel/IBM on 04/05/2003 09:50 --------------------------- Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>@w3.org on 02/05/2003 23:57:44 Sent by: public-iri-request@w3.org To: public-iri@w3.org cc: Subject: Closing issue [arabicnum-03] This serves to close http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/#arabicnum-03. I had put this issue on the issues list because in examples 7-9 of the BidiExamples page (http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/BidiExamples), I saw Arabic-Indic digits in the Arabic examples rather than the European digits that I was expecting. Further examination has shown that this is a browser issue. Netscape 7 (/Mozilla) is the only browser that I have found that converts digit shapes when displaying them. Tango, IE6, Safari, and Opera don't change digit shapes. Section 13.3 (http://www.unicode.org/book/ch13.pdf, p. 320) of Unicode 3.0 is clear that nominal behavior (not changing the glyphs used to display the digits) is correct, and using national digit shaping would only be acceptable if using the deprecated and strongly discouraged numeric shape selectors (which I have of course not used). So Netscape/Mozilla is wrong here, and should be fixed. I have told somebody in the i18n team at Netscape. I have added a note at the top of the BidiExamples page saying that a browser doing digit shaping correctly should be used. I have closed this issue. Regards, Martin.
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