Le jeudi 02 décembre 2010 à 11:41 -0500, Alexander Belopolsky a écrit : > > Note that my point is not to find the correct answer here, but to > demonstrate that we as a group don't have the expertise to get parsing > of Arabic text right.
I don't understand why you think Arabic or Hebrew text is any different from Western text. Surely right-to-left isn't more conceptually complicated than left-to-right, is it? The fact that mixed rtl + ltr can render bizarrely or is awkward to cut and paste is quite off-topic for our discussion. > If we've got it right for Arabic, it is by > chance and not by design. This still leaves us with 41 other types of > digits for at least 30 different languages. So why do you trust the Unicode standard on other things and not on this one? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
