[FriBidi] Mixed RTL and numeric strings

[Behdad Esfahbod]

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:behdad.esfahbod at gmail.com] 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: fribidi-bounces+ian.walberg=airborne.aero at lists.freedesktop.org 
>>> [mailto:fribidi-bounces+ian.walberg=airborne.aero at lists.freedesktop.or
>>> 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:behdad.esfahbod at gmail.com] 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:behdad.esfahbod at gmail.com] 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/
>>>>
>>>
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