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style="font-family: Raleway;"><span>Asmus Freytag wrote on 13/07/2022
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/13/2022 2:58 AM, r12a wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family: Raleway;">The approach differs not only
by script and which digits are used, but also by language.
Arabic and Persian both use the Arabic script, but do things
differently when it comes to ordering components of a range or
expression.<br>
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<p>Isn't that difference handled by having two different sets of
digits? As opposed to relying on a language tag.<br></p></blockquote><br>See
the cases in figs. 3 and 4 at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://r12a.github.io/scripts/arabic/arb.html#expressions">https://r12a.github.io/scripts/arabic/arb.html#expressions</a>. Same
digits, different expectations about directionality. <br><br>I wasn't
talking about language tags or behaviour arising from character
properties (indeed the language tag doesn't make a difference) – i was
talking about the user expectations differing from language to language
about the order in which digits appear in the text.<br><br>hth<br>ri<br><br><br></div></body></html>