Re: [Fwd: Re: Colouring combining Marks]

From: fantasai (fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net)
Date: Tue Jun 21 2005 - 12:04:46 CDT

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    Michael Everson wrote:
    > At 01:29 -0500 2005-06-22, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
    >
    >> Right, but that's my point - this notion of "natural" ordering is
    >> unnatural for Arabic. It is quite "natural" to type (and speak)
    >> numbers in either order- least or most significant digit first.
    >
    > In Arabic counting, I believe I have heard, the least significant digit
    > is given first.

    But not in Farsi.

    ~fantasai

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