Re: [NTG-context] %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?

Am 31.01.2008 um 16:08 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid:

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Any native arabic speaker out there? Is it %18 or 18% ??

It really depends on where you live. In Persian, 18% is common, among Arabs, %18. Both languages are left-to-right, but there is more than one convention for dealing with mathematical directionality.

Some of these issues are still being worked about in the Arabic-script world.

That's what I suspected ...

These subtlties need to be addressed for proper high-level handling of Arabic-script in ConTeXt/mkiv.

Yes!!

Best wishes Idris

Thanks, Steffen