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