- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:55:31 +0100
- To: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
Mati, if we display 12345 as יב׳שמה i'm assuming that the character representing 0-9 should be on the right, and the digits representing thousands should be on the left (ie. rtl display of characters from the text stream). Is that right? RI On 20/08/2013 19:27, Richard Ishida wrote: > Raised by: > Matitiahu Allouche > > Opened on: > 2013-08-04 > > Description: > This comment relates to > http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-counter-styles-3-20130718/ section 6.1 > for Hebrew, and also to > http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-predefined-counter-styles-20130725/ section > 12 Hebrew which is a duplicate of the former. > > In the text, the additive symbols max up at 400. For numbers larger > than 799, the symbol for 400 will appear several times. For numbers like > the Hebrew year (currently 5773), this gives 14 such symbols, which is > hardly readable and does not conform to common usage. > The better usage is to have the number of thousands followed by > Geresh (\5F3) followed by the rest of the number. > For 5773, this would give \5D4 \5F3 \5EA \5E9 \5E2 \5D2. > Note that there is no space between the thousands and the rest of > the number. > For 12345, we would have \5D9 \5D1 \5F3 \5E9 \5DE \5D4. > >
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