On Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:27:58 -0600, Mohammad Khan wrote: > >No idea why S/360 folks did it this way but among the natural languages there >is at least one, likely more, where they do like you desire. In Arabic while >writing from right to left 345 is written exactly in that order and it's read >"five forty three hundred". > "Four-and-twenty blackbirds ..."?
How would you enter that number in a bilingual editor/word processor? Which digit would you press first? I once had Google translate a short sentence to Arabic. I was puzzled to see the period on the right. But, ah, that's a Latin period, so it belongs on the right in bilingual text. Can't reproduce the behavior today. --gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
