Re: How to recognize keyboard insertion?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 06:44:44 +0100
> From: address@hidden
> Cc: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> > > I suspect an arabic person might type
> > > 
> > > ثثث(5+4)*9ثثث
> > > 
> > > - i.e. hitting ")" first when transcribing "9*(4+5)".
> > 
> > Maybe if the digits are Arabic digits.  I don't know enough Arabic to
> > judge this example [...]
> 
> I don't either, but FWIW, i can say that although Arabic uses different
> glyphs to represent digits, the write direction for numerals is the same
> as in Latin and Hebrew, i.e. most significant digit to the left.

Maybe so, but UAX#9 treats European digits and Arabic digits
differently.  They have different bidirectional properties.