Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion?

[tomas]

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On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 08:15:58PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:37:07 +0000
> > From: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>

[...]

> > ثثث9*)4+5(ثثث
> > - but that was when I typed the expression as if LtR (i.e. hitting 9 
> > first)
> 
> This is how digits and other mathematical expressions are typed in
> bidirectional text.
> 
> > I suspect an arabic person might type
> > 
> > ثثث(5+4)*9ثثث
> > 
> > - i.e. hitting ")" first when transcribing "9*(4+5)".
> 
> Maybe if the digits are Arabic digits.  I don't know enough Arabic to
> judge this example [...]

I don't either, but FWIW, i can say that although Arabic uses different
glyphs to represent digits, the write direction for numerals is the same
as in Latin and Hebrew, i.e. most significant digit to the left.

Regards
- -- tomás
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