Tom Lane wrote:
Oh? Interesting. But even if we wanted to teach Postgres about that,
wouldn't there be a pretty strong risk of getting confused by Arabic's
right-to-left writing direction? Wouldn't be real helpful if the entry
came out as 4321 when the user wanted 1234. Definitely seems like
something that had better be left to the application side, where there's
more context about what the string means.
The Arabic language is written right-to-left, except ... when it comes
to numbers.
http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/arabic/anumbers.htm
I agree that it's application specific. The HTML/Perl script ought to
convert to Western numerals.
Joe
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