- From: Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:47:45 +0200
- To: www-international@w3.org
CE Whitehead wrote: >> >> For numbers, the inversion is implicit. > > (Is the inversion implicit ?? Yes, the inversion is implicit. On Bidi issues you are safe taking Jony's word for it. > When you type on an Arabic typewriter, I guess you start typing numerals beginning with the 1's, then the 10's, then the 100's--I've never typed numerals on an Arabic typewriter though > [a poem once I typed, that was written by al-Khansa, that I found in Arberry, and that I needed to markup.]) A typewriter is limited by the capabilities of the technology (although I believe that electric "golf ball" typewriters in the 1960s or 70s already allowed the user to change direction).
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