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author | Shaun McCance <shaunm@src.gnome.org> | 2005-12-11 19:36:05 +0000 |
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committer | Shaun McCance <shaunm@src.gnome.org> | 2005-12-11 19:36:05 +0000 |
commit | 56764432cd65fde934ee4e37fc635f41041a5e0c (patch) | |
tree | 6be131ec449f9e15d9def3faf34fe83f6ed503bc /i18n/notes/fa.txt | |
parent | 7f00940e144a6301512bdca3bf1efc853ddc73b8 (diff) | |
download | gnome-doc-utils-56764432cd65fde934ee4e37fc635f41041a5e0c.tar.gz |
- Added some notes for Greek, Persian, and Thai
* i18n/notes/el.txt:
* i18n/notes/fa.txt:
* i18n/notes/th.txt:
- Added some notes for Greek, Persian, and Thai
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diff --git a/i18n/notes/fa.txt b/i18n/notes/fa.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e5bf9f --- /dev/null +++ b/i18n/notes/fa.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +From: Roozbeh Pourmader +Date: 2005-12-11 +Subject: Numberings used in Iran +================================================================================ + +These are the other item numbering systems we need for Persian as used +in Iran and Afghanistan: + +1) Abjad-normal: This is simple. There is a fixed list of 28 strings, +and the numbering is not supported beyond that. + +2) Abjad-numerical: This is like a the Greek system. There are different +strings for 1, 2, 3, ..., 9, 10, 20, ..., 90, 100, 200, ..., 900, and +1000. When counting, strings are concatenated, so 954 is "900"+"50"+"4". +This can only count until 1999. + +3) Alphabetic: This is like Abjad-normal, but with 32 different strings. + +4) Spelled numbers: This is a little hard. It's actually spelling each +number in letters, the equivalent of "one", "two", "three", ... + +Of these, 1, 3, 4 are used in everyday documents (but never 1 and 3 in +the same document). Case 2 is only used when the publisher is somehow +old-style and the number of pages in the preamble or the items of a list +exceeds 28. + +I can provide details is you are interested in implementing them. +Specifically, I have written down the exact rules for case 4 in an +algorithm-like thing, for numbers less than or equal to 10^{15}-1. |