- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 19:34:30 -0400
- To: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Cc: Markus Ernst <derernst@gmx.ch>, Gabriele Romanato <gabriele.romanato@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:43 PM, timeless <timeless@gmail.com> wrote: > The reason that Hebrew numbering wouldn't be used by wikipedia for > general lists is quite simple, as explained by: > http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/hebrew-numbers.html > <blockquote> > Most Hebrew text today uses European digits (0, 1, 2, 3...9) to > represent numbers. > However, religious or biblical text, and calendars in Hebrew will use > the traditional > form which uses Hebrew letters as numeric values. > </blockquote> I'm aware of that, yes. > Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean. For Mozilla iirc we > had slightly different rules for how numbers behaved in certain > contexts -- this related to hindi/arabic. From memory, the preference > for Arabic was different for Persian than other Arabic localized > builds. > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#Bidi. > bidi.numeral I mean, are there any languages where <ol> will display by default with localized, non-decimal numerals?
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