[Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/1/2010 7:44 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

> it.  The argument was that if there was a use case for parsing Eastern
> Arabic numerals, it would be better served by a module written by
> someone who speaks one of the Arabic languages and knows the details
> of how  Eastern Arabic numerals are written.  So far nobody has even
> claimed to know conclusively that Arabic-Indic digits are always
> written left-to-right.

Both my personal observations when travelling from Turkey to India and 
Wikipedia say yes. "When representing a number in Arabic, the 
lowest-valued position is placed on the right, so the order of positions 
is the same as in left-to-right scripts."
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Arabic_language#Numerals

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Terry Jan Reedy