help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: emacs + unicode + hebrew + bidi


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: emacs + unicode + hebrew + bidi
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:28:05 +0200

> From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
> Copyright: Copyright 2008 James Cloos
> OpenPGP-Fingerprint: E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B  63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6
> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:04:23 -0500
> 
> |> The numbers are from left to right
> 
> Another way to wor what he says is that the (so-called) Arabic digits
> are big-endian when read LTR and little-endian when read RTL, and that
> regardless of how one actually thinks of them the representation of
> integers is inherently little-endian.

Endianness has nothing to do with LTR and RTL languages.

And you are wrong saying that numbers are little-endian when read RTL,
because many RTL languages read number LTR.




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]