Re: Mixed RTL and numeric strings
Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:35:10 -0400
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Snap. That's exactly why U+066x digits and U+06Fx digits have different types. So, MINUS SIGN is supposed to work both for Arabic and Persian digits. b On 13-04-17 05:31 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > For RTL text I expect the minus to be on the right (OK, I was taught > math in from right to left using Arabic notation), so Unicode/FriBiDi > are doing the right thing, so what you want here is to treat math > expressions as being “isolated” LTR, so you should enclose them in LRE > and PDF marks (U+202A and U+202C, respectively). > > Regards, > Khaled > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 05:21:11PM -0400, Ian Walberg wrote: >> Behdad, >> >> Let us try that, we do need to mix number (12345) and Arabic/Hebrew text with the minus sign. >> >> Thanks >> >> Ian >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Behdad Esfahbod >> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 2:18 PM >> To: Ian Walberg >> Cc: FriBidi >> Subject: Re: [FriBidi] Mixed RTL and numeric strings >> >> On 13-04-17 05:10 PM, Ian Walberg wrote: >>> Behdad, >>> >>> That seems to give the same result. >>> >>> Can you send me a utf8 string that you think should work with a minus sign? >> >> How about this: >> >> −۳۲ بهداد >> >> b >> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Ian >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected] >>> g] On Behalf Of Ian Walberg >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:54 PM >>> To: Behdad Esfahbod >>> Cc: FriBidi >>> Subject: Re: [FriBidi] Mixed RTL and numeric strings >>> >>> Behdad, >>> >>> Ok great, how do we insert that? Say using a text editor? We use ultra edit. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Ian >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> Behdad Esfahbod >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:49 PM >>> To: Ian Walberg >>> Cc: FriBidi >>> Subject: Re: Mixed RTL and numeric strings >>> >>> I think the easiest way to fix this is to use U+2212 MINUS SIGN instead of ASCII HYPHEN-MINUS. >>> >>> behdad >>> >>> On 13-04-16 07:45 PM, Ian Walberg wrote: >>>> Behdad, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Below is the image from mapserver and the text copied from the sqlite >>>> database (attached). >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Ian >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -32 درجة حرارة الهواء >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>>> Behdad Esfahbod >>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 12:49 PM >>>> To: Ian Walberg >>>> Cc: FriBidi >>>> Subject: Re: Mixed RTL and numeric strings >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 13-04-16 11:23 AM, Ian Walberg wrote: >>>> >>>>> Behdad, >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> We are using mapserver and need to display mixed RTL text and >>>>> numeric >>>> >>>>> data. >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> The numeric data displays the minus sign after the string 123- >>>>> rather >>>> >>>>> than -123 as we would like. >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Is it possible to make the minus sign appear before the numbers? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Show me the code? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Many thanks >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>> Ian >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> behdad >>>> >>>> http://behdad.org/ >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> behdad >>> http://behdad.org/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> fribidi mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fribidi >>> >> >> -- >> behdad >> http://behdad.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> fribidi mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fribidi > -- behdad http://behdad.org/ _______________________________________________ fribidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fribidi