Arabic numbers in HTML
May be the W3C hasn’t paid attention to this bug which is considered as a feature.
When you write in Arabic letters and you include numbers, the numbers turn into Hindi, instead of Arabic ones! I do never use Hindi numbers, that’s why I’m obliged everytime I write in Arabic, to use Gimp in order to convert Arabic numbers into transparent GIF, and, instead of typing 1234 , I make a whole mess: <img src=”images/1234.gif” alt=”1234″ width=”20″ height=”5″ />
It’s very stupid and make a loss of time, but is there another solution?
November 15th, 2006 at 12:59 am
انا نكتب بالعربي وما تعرضتش للمشكله هاذي
لو تقولي باكثر توضيح ممكن نفيدك
1234
November 15th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Well, it sometimes works; but once Hindi numbers appear instead of Arabic ones, it becomes a mess, as it’s almost impossible to “convert” them.
Thanks
November 15th, 2006 at 11:20 am
on dirait qu’ils font exprés d’oublier que 0123 c arabe. et que les chiffres qu’il utilisent au middle east ne le sont pas! :s
November 15th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Yep, for me, it’s ridiculous.
November 16th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
أنا ما أتعجب منه هو ما تسير عليه ليبياكتاريخ السنة فهو ليس ميلادي وليس هجري .وإنما من وفاة الرسول(ص).
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May 10th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
I’m not sure what you mean by “Hindi numbers appear instead of Arabic ones”, but this should be something in your browser settings and has nothing to do with HTML or W3C (firefox has a bidi.numbers option that turn this on, but this is just for display, the actual content doesn’t change).