Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA632E3298 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:37:45 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 46536-02 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:37:40 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail12c35.nsolutionszone.com (mail12c35.nsolutionszone.com [209.235.148.22]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9872E31F7 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:37:39 -0400 (AST) X-Authenticated-User: jhasler.centurytel.net Received: from toncho.dhh.gt.org ([69.179.110.89]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail12c35.nsolutionszone.com (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m0FGbXhf013036 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:37:35 GMT Received: from john by toncho.dhh.gt.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JEon6-0005aE-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:37:32 -0600 To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: UTF8 encoding and non-text data types References: <20080113222706.73BE416DA2AB@mx1.hub.org> <478aea79.03098c0a.5f32.ffffa6e4SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> <8078a1730801141101j4bc0dc4chdffee5eaebdb99da@mail.gmail.com> <20080114201831.B34BA2E2CC4@postgresql.org> <8078a1730801141243o63676d02mdb1e3a539679f79f@mail.gmail.com> <7578.1200350483@sss.pgh.pa.us> <478BEA35.1010405@freedomcircle.net> <8278.1200353073@sss.pgh.pa.us> <478BF2FD.60002@freedomcircle.net> <87odbnidmt.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> From: John Hasler Organization: Dancing Horse Hill Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:37:32 -0600 In-Reply-To: <87odbnidmt.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> (Gregory Stark's message of "Tue\, 15 Jan 2008 10\:31\:22 +0000") Message-ID: <871w8jxcxf.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200801/130 X-Sequence-Number: 29983 Joe writes: > The Arabic language is written right-to-left, except ... when it comes to > numbers. Perhaps they read their numbers right to left but use a little-endian notation. -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org Elmwood, WI USA