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Created attachment 1247 [details] Proposal for the Digit Shape requirement Update HTML5 to properly handle digit shaping. The user "HTML Developer" should be able to set the digit shape according to his needs. This feature is a globalization support not bidirectional specific feature. Arabic and many other languages (Thai and Bengali) have classical shapes for digits “National Digits” that are different from the conventional Arabic Digits (1, 2, 3 …). National digits have the same semantic meaning as the Arabic digits, and the numbers they form are read from left to right (most significant digit on the left). The difference is only a difference in glyphs. Detailed description of the requirement and its options included in the attachment.
Mass move to "HTML WG"
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