[OS X TeX] %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?

[David Watson]

I will ask my colleague tomorrow. Thanks for the specifics.

David Watson

On Feb 4, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Eric Jablow wrote:

>
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 6:01 PM, David Watson wrote:
>
>> I asked an Egyptian friend of mine in graduate school about this,  
>> and his immediate response was that it should be placed on the  
>> left. There may be some difference between Egyptian arabic and  
>> other forms of arabic, but he didn't seem to make any distinction  
>> of such a custom.
>>
>
> Is the percent sign mirrored too? I'm guessing that it is replaced  
> with Unicode U+066A, ARABIC PERCENT SIGN.  See http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0600.pdf 
> .  Look at page 4 of that, marked as p. 50 in print.
>
> Respectfully,
> Eric Jablow