Hi,
Thanks all for information.
I think I found something. It would be a little bit of wrong typo in
Table 3-7 "Bidirectional Character Types" of this paper.
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/tr9-5.html.
Category Type Description Scope
Strong AL Right-to-Left Arabic Arabic, Thaana, ....
... ranges (0600-07BF <-- Wrong typo.
I just found that the techincal report says "Arabic-Indic digit (0660-0669)" is
actually Weak type. It's AN. (according to the technical report).
Seems to be that Weak Type of Arabic-Indic digit does make sense due to there
is the situation where the digits are used for as non-numeric, like name.
If the direction of arabic-indic digits is not what users want, users can
control the direction by using LRE/LRO/RLE/RLO.
Thanks all again.
Chookij V.
] Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 13:18:19 -0700 (PDT)
] From: Mark Leisher <mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu>
] Subject: Re: arabic number in bidi algorithm
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] Chookij> According to the Bidi algorithm, the arabic number (U+0671 -
] Chookij> U+0679) has the strong type, RIGHT-TO-LEFT. So, regardless of RLO
] Chookij> and RLE, can I say that the arabic number (U+0671 - U+0679) would
] Chookij> be always written from RIGHT to LEFT. This is confused me due to
] Chookij> I see that, in miscrosoft word (arabic version), the arabic
] Chookij> number is written from LEFT to RIGHT.
]
] Chookij> May be someone can let me know which one is right or I miss
] Chookij> anything ?
]
] The digits in the Arabic block, U+0660-U+0669 and U+06F0-U+06F9, all have weak
] directionality. Visually they generally appear left-to-right.
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