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Are numbers read right-to-left in Arabic script, as in ones first, then tens, etc.? Edit: this led me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole trying to find the history o
by nitrogen 5y ago
Are numbers read right-to-left in Arabic script, as in ones first, then tens, etc.?
Edit: this led me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole trying to find the history of alphabets and writing direction for Turkish and Farsi, but I still don't know the answer to the number order question.
- dustintrex 5y agoNo, numbers read left to right, even when using Arabic numerals and when the rest of the text is RTL. Even more oddly, negative signs are typically placed on the right side.
- djrockstar1 5y agoNumbers in Arabic are still left-to-right 19 is still ١٩, not ٩١. It makes designing forms fairly annoying, because for text fields you want RTL input, but fields like phone numbers, you need to override the locale's RTL and ask for LTR input.
- erie 5y agoThis is a nightmare when copying numbers that has spaces between every 3 digits, when the system has Arabic, for example a mobile number would get the digits reversed upon copying them.
- grey_earthling 5y agoI'd assumed they were right-to-left and little-endian, as opposed to left-to-right and big-endian. So if you were reading out digits in amongst text, you'd skip to the left end of the digits and read them out left-to-right?