- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:51:09 +0000
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- CC: Jonathan Rosenne <rosennej@qsm.co.il>, www-international@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
David Woolley wrote: > [snip] > > It would make sense for telephone numbers to be presented right to > left in Arabic, even though numeric numbers have their most > significant digit on the right. I don't know the actual situation. > Arabic numbers are written as in western countries: they have their most significant digit on the left, for example 2009. For groups of numbers, usually 08:15 is eight and a quarter 26/05/2009 is the 26th of May 2009 00 12 34 56 78 is a phone number to be typed from left to right as you might expect etc. There are also cases where it depends on the author. In Copyright text, you may find (2000-2008) as well as (2008-2000). Najib -- Najib TOUNSI (mailto:tounsi at w3 dot org) W3C Office in Morocco (http://www.w3c.org.ma/) Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, BP. 765 Agdal-RABAT Morocco Phone : +212 (0) 537 68 71 50 (P1711) Fax : +212 (0) 537 77 88 53 Mobile: +212 (0) 661 22 00 30
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