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Re: Arabic numbers



On Thursday 15 March 2007 07:43, Fahmi Gnet wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In Tunisia, which is a country of North Africa, the first language is
> Arabic, the second language is French and the third language is English.
>
> Not like, the Middle east Arabic countries, although we use arabic as first
> language (Mother language), we use always the arbic numbers (0123456789) in
> the use of the three languages (ar / fr / en).
>
> So, childs began to learn arbic numbers and they never learn indian
> numbers.
>
> I suggest the use of the locale in addition to the language : as for
> Tunisia "ar-tn".
>
> Hope that can help.
> Fahmi Hachicha

Same in Morocco, as in all North African countries.