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Re: Internal number storage



Nadim Shaikli a *crit :

>
> Well, I'd suggest we move to standardize this issue for the sake of
> consistency (that's why things are standards :-).  I really don't care
> which encoding (ASCII or non-ASCII) gets stored or how things are
> defaulted, but those two issues should be noted in bold somewhere for
> all application developers to follow to better serve the users.
>
> The standard should also clearly discuss the merits of contextual
> "number shaping" for those documents that will need to intermix number
> displays and set any guidelines regarding this matter in general (including
> the need to have an option to default from one visual to the other, etc).
>
> Any objections ?

None, seems perfect to me:)

> if not which consortium would this fall under ?

Arabeyes?;)

Salaam,
Chahine