"Four-and-twenty blackbirds ..."? When poetic licence kicks in, all bets are off!
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 9, 2017, at 17:05, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu<mailto:0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>> wrote: 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<mailto:lists...@listserv.ua.edu> with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
