From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38897 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mr Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ? Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:44:48 +0100 Organization: MDPI Message-ID: <47A1C2C0.5090008@mdpi.org> References: <2823285E-0472-4B8C-AA7C-F1A2F3EE07E8@st.estfiles.de> Reply-To: rordorf@mdpi.org, mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201783607 5392 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 12:46:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:46:47 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jan 31 13:47:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKYoj-0007nb-Ak for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:46:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BAD1FC01; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:46:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14173-01; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:45:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F6E1FB7E; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:45:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2551FB7E for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:45:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09366-01-2 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:44:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from atlas.kreativmedia.ch (ns23.kreativmedia.ch [80.74.146.167]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4D41FB38 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:44:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 16287 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2008 13:44:51 +0100 Original-Received: from 84-73-126-30.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO ?172.16.0.34?) (84.73.126.30) by ns23.kreativmedia.ch with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 Jan 2008 13:44:51 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <2823285E-0472-4B8C-AA7C-F1A2F3EE07E8@st.estfiles.de> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:38897 Archived-At: Dear Steffen, Arabic is read from right to left, so the the % sign in front of the number, if you read from right to left, becomes actually after the number. One of my co-worker originally from Lebanon confirmed this. Kind regards, Dietrich -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf MDPI Center Matthaeusstrasse 11 CH-4057 Basel Switzerland E-mail: rordorf@mdpi.org Skype: d.rordorf Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > > I have often seen (in arabic newpapers) the percentage sign set left > to the number "% 18". > Recently I read an article (http://sehstoerung.sonance.net/pdfs/ > TitusNemeth_dissertation.pdf) that calls this "... the incorrect > placement of the percentage sign". > > Any native arabic speaker out there? Is it %18 or 18% ?? > > > Thanks, > > Steffen > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________