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From: Joe <dev@freedomcircle.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Medi Montaseri <montaseri@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Midgley <public@misuse.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: UTF8 encoding and non-text data types
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:40:45 -0500
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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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