Re: Arabic-Hindi digits vs. Arabic-western digits

["G Karunakar" <indlinux gmail com>]

On Nov 5, 2007 1:35 PM, Waleed Oransa <WORANSA eg ibm com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for an option to force Gnome or any GTK+ application to display
> Hindi digits instead of Arabic-Western digits. In other  words, I need to
> change the shapes of digits in the display only while all digits will still
> stored in Arabic-western ASCII range. Is there any available option for that
> in Gnome if not does any one aware of similar option in KDE/QT?
>

this could probably be done by using a font which has hindi digits in
place of arabic-western ones, otherwise you would get Hindi digits
only if its stored also in Hindi.. though it might be a easy hack to
convert from  arabic-western to Hindi when displaying, typically could
be done by just adding an offset to the numeric codes.

Regards,
Karunakar