On 2010/11/25, CE Whitehead <[email protected]> wrote: > One note: for Arabic there are two sets of Indic digits with some digits > being identical; both sets of Indic digits are allowed which can thus lead to > the registration of confusables (I mentioned this before; since the alphabets > are essentially the same you can have banuk1.com with an Eastern 1 in one > language confusable with banuk1.com with a Western 1 in Arabic itself; see: > http://www.iana.org/domains/idn-tables/tables/xn--mgberp4a5d4ar_ar_1.0.html > "4.Numbers > In the Arab world, there are two sets of numerical digits used: > I.From U+0030 (Digit Zero) to U+0039 (Digit Nine) > Mostly used in the western part of the Arab world (al-maghrib al-arabi). > II.From U+0660 (Arabic-Indic Digit Zero) to U+0669 (Arabic-Indic Digit Nine), > > Mostly used in the eastern part of the Arab world (al-mashriq al-arabi). > Hence, both sets should be supported in the user interface and both are > folded to one set (Set I) at the preparation of internationalized strings > (e.g., "stringprep") phase."
Shouldn't this concern all sets of digits that are freely replaceable automatically according to the on/off/auto setting for "use national variants of decimal digits" ? Philippe.
