| From: | Joe <dev(at)freedomcircle(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Medi Montaseri <montaseri(at)gmail(dot)com>, Steve Midgley <public(at)misuse(dot)org>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: UTF8 encoding and non-text data types |
| Date: | 2008-01-14 23:40:45 |
| Message-ID: | 478BF2FD.60002@freedomcircle.net |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Oh? Interesting. But even if we wanted to teach Postgres about that,
> wouldn't there be a pretty strong risk of getting confused by Arabic's
> right-to-left writing direction? Wouldn't be real helpful if the entry
> came out as 4321 when the user wanted 1234. Definitely seems like
> something that had better be left to the application side, where there's
> more context about what the string means.
>
The Arabic language is written right-to-left, except ... when it comes
to numbers.
http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/arabic/anumbers.htm
I agree that it's application specific. The HTML/Perl script ought to
convert to Western numerals.
Joe
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