Re: Arabic-Hindi digits vs. Arabic-western digits

[Djihed Afifi <djihedlists googlemail com>]

Hi Waleed,


A late reply, but better late than never.

Ideally, this should be handled by the locale. If you are, say, from
Saudia Arabia then your locale is ar_SA and arabic hindu numericals
should be displayed.

To make this possible, in translation (what we do), this should be done
by substituting every "%d" (for integer), as well as other terms, with
an "%Id". However, the Arabic team does not do that at the moment
because:

1) the old CVS system refused translations with %Id  so we got carried
away doing %d everywhere.
2) GNOME does not have a clear policy on this issue.

The second ppoint is important because most developers don't mark some 
%d's for translation, so we can get a situation where an interface has
mixed numericals. Which is a Bad Thing wrt consistency.

We're hoping to shape up a proposal regarding this when we're ready.

For now, if you absolutly need it, your solution is a very ugly hack:
replace every arabic numerical in your font with a hindu one.

Djihed



في ن، 05-11-2007 عند 10:05 +0200 ، كتب Waleed Oransa:
> 
> Hi All, 
> 
> I'm looking for an option to force Gnome or any GTK+ application to
> display Hindi digits instead of Arabic-Western digits. In other
>  words, I need to change the shapes of digits in the display only
> while all digits will still stored in Arabic-western ASCII range. Is
> there any available option for that in Gnome if not does any one aware
> of similar option in KDE/QT? 
> 
> Thanks in advance. 
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