Baki-
It seems your contribution to TamilToText in nsBulletFrame.cpp is
incorrect. Can you work on a patch to fix it ?
Padma:
Thank you for explain this to us. Have you try mozilla. It will be nice
if you can help Baki to fix the Tamil list-style-type in our CSS
extension.
"Padma kumar .R" wrote:
> Can someone explain to me how Tamil numbering system work ?
> Unicode 3.0 have define 12 numerals for Tamil. How do they present a
> number ?In the book "Writing Systems of The World", Akira Nakanish,
> ISBN 0-8048-1654-9, page 58. It saidNumerals
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 100 1,000Tamil numerals have no sign for zero;
> thus, [1,000][9][100][8][10] 1980. Now only Arabic figures are used.I
> cannot figure out the exact algorithm/rule from this example. I would
> like some Tamil experts provide helps to me to understand it.1. Is
> that true that the 1 of the most significant digit will be omit so
> 1980 is [1,000][9][100][8][10] but not [1][1,000][9][100][8][10]
> ? U can represent it in both way 2. How about number > 9999 ? Is
> there numeral character for 10,000 ? 100,000 ? Or you *reuse* the
> [10], [100], [1,00] numeral characters? If so, how ? This system of
> numbering is used in very olden days. This type of numbering
> convension is very similar to the old Chinese numbering system. And
> you are correct in reusing [10] and [100] and [1000]. The only
> difference is that in Thamizh (Tamil) the writing direction is left to
> right while in Chinese it is from top to bottom.
> 3. What it will look like for the following number
> a. 1980 -> [1,000][9][100][8][10] (example for expected answer
> format) or 1[1000]9[100]8[10]
> b. 2980 -> 2[1000]9[100]8[10]
> c. 11 -> [10]1 or 1[10]1
> d. 456,987 -> 4[100][1000]5[10][1000]6[1000]9[100]8[10]7
> e. 450,000 ->4[100][1000]5[10][1000]
> f. 450,002 ->4[100][1000]5[10][1000]2 Thanks for your interest shown
> towards Thamizh (Tamil) language... which is one of the very old, rich
> language in the world.- Padmakumar.R(padmaxi_unicode@hotmail.com)
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