In Hebrew the names of the days of the week are ordinals for Sunday
(first) to Friday (sixth). European umbers are not used, but Hebrew
(Alef to Vav) are.
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Serge Nesterovitch
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:41 AM
> To: Doug Ewell
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re[2]: Month names (was: Re: Standard Conventions and euro)
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> Hello Doug,
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> Monday, March 04, 2002, 3:07:44 AM, you wrote:
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> DE> In the Hebrew calendar, only Shabbat (Saturday) has a
> name; the rest
> DE> of the days are numbered. In Russian and Portuguese, most of the
> DE> day names are numeric.
> It's wrong information.
> In Russian NO one days of week name is numeric.
> 3 of it's names are based on the numbers,
> but vtornik =/= vtoroi
> chetverg =/= chetveryi
> pyatnitsa =/= pyatyi
> Using numbers of a days where names must be used is impossible.
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> And when somebody trying to use day _numbers_ he must
> remember, that not in all cultures week begins from the same
> day. There are some traditions, in which the first day of the
> week is a sunday, and some - with the first day - monday.
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> Best regards,
> Serge mailto:felix@bst.ru
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