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Documenting gaps and requirements for support of Indic languages on the Web and in eBooks.
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Gurmukhi numeral switch needed #100

Open r12a opened 4 years ago

r12a commented 4 years ago

Generally Latin Numerals are acceptable in Gurmukhi text. Most of the user community identifies with them. However, there could be cases where certain web-pages would prefer to have numerals in Gurmukhi to cater to mono-lingual (mono-script rather) readers. This is particularly required for input types number and date. It would be useful if the input type values are augmented with the script mnemonics e.g. number_guru or date_guru instead of changing it for entire page through some locale setting. There could be cases where a user may require both kinds of numbering in the same web-page.

r12a commented 4 years ago

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bgo-eiu commented 1 year ago

I have commented on related concerns in #118 but I will clarify here as well. Both numeral forms may be used alongside each other and the "Latin" numerals are based on Gurmukhi (and therefore legible as such).

I do not think there is much reason to change the numeric digits from how they are typed. This is particularly pertinent for toponyms which include numbers in them, and things like postcodes, which should be represented in the same numeral format they were typed in. The forms often appear alongside each other and it would not be helpful to erase distinctions that someone has made in using different ones in writing.