Re: Arabic Hexadecimal Representation

Sallam
What about Hebrew?
It seems there is even support for latex in hebrew?

The same algorithm should be used if not better.

K. Honsali

On 06/09/2007, Mohammad Nachawati <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Salam,
>
> I am wondering if there exists a standard all Arabic hexadecimal
> representation. I have searched Google for this and surprisingly got
> nothing. It also doesn't appear to be supported in Unicode. For example, in
> English hexadecimal has the following alphabet (using the first 6 letters of
> the alphabet): 0123456789ABCDEF. In Arabic I would assume it would be one of
> three possibilities (possibly with Indic numerals):
>
> 1) Using arabic letters that naturally do not connect at the end (there
> just happens to be six): 0123456789 و ز ر ذ د أ
> OR
> 2) Using abjad order: 0123456789 و ه د ج ب أ
> OR
> 3) Using standard order: 0123456789 ح ج ث ت ب أ
>
> I personally prefer option 2. The problem with any of these
> representations is with the display. Writing a hexadecimal number in one of
> these formats will not display correctly using the current unicode bidi
> algorithm, because arabic numbers are written in the opposite direction (
> e.g. 0x3B0D = 3ب0د it flips the letters positions). If no standard exists,
> I would like to see one created but I have no idea on how to do that. Does
> anyone have any insight into this issue.
>
> -Omar
>
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