Dropdown lists and arabic numerals

[Mutley]

I am finding an issue with the current DropDownList and ListBox ASP.NET Web
Controls.
I had a system set up for Arabic and a string that I put into a drop down
had a number. The letters were being displayed in Arabic but the numbers were
Latin. In other parts of my app ,Arabic numerals would appear as expected.
I found an MSDN link to the following web page that mentioned there was an
issue with the current DropDownList and ListBox ASP.NET Web Controls i.e.
they currently only support Latin numerals.
The link is:-
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...plications.asp

Is there any workaround for this or will this issue be fixed soon?
Thanks in advance for any help
Cheers
John

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Mutley,

Are you sure you want numbers as CXVI in your listbox, which are Latin
numerals.

Those we use for centuries no more in countries using the latin alphabet, we
all use Arabic numbers 0123456789

The writer of that article knows probably not what are Latin numerals.

http://www.informalmusic.com/latinsoc/latnum.html

Cor

[Mutley]

Sorry,
what I meant is that the numbers that appear are 0,1,2,3 etc.
instead of the arabic equivalent (the writer of the article refers to 0,1,2,3
etc. as Latin numerals which may or may not be correct - doesn't matter). The
issue is that I get 0,1,2,3 etc. when I want the Arabic equivalent of these
digits. You can see the arabic equivalent to these numbers if you go to
regional options in control panel and set the "Your locale (location)" drop
down list on the General options tab to be Arabic. After hitting Apply on
this tab, if you then go to the Numbers tab you can see what the standard
digits are for Arabic.
So with this regional setting if you were to enter a number in a text box
the Arabic standards digits would appear and not the Latin numerals 0,1,2 etc.
Unfortunately if you then go to a drop down control Arabic standard digits
will not appear but you get 0,1,2 etc. instead

Thanks for any further help
John

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" wrote:

Mutley,

Are you sure you want numbers as CXVI in your listbox, which are Latin
numerals.

Those we use for centuries no more in countries using the latin alphabet, we
all use Arabic numbers 0123456789

The writer of that article knows probably not what are Latin numerals.

http://www.informalmusic.com/latinsoc/latnum.html

Cor

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Mutley,

the Arabic standards digits would appear and not the Latin numerals 0,1,2
etc.

I really don't understand what you mean with Latin numerals 0, 1,2 The latin
equivalent from those arabic numerals is I, II and III.

The arabic numerals are used in allmost all countries in Europe, America,
Australia and Africa.

Here is wikidi, therefore please make clear what you want.

Arabic Numerals are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

Cor

[Mutley]

I do not want to see the digits 0,1,2,3 etc.
Using regional options I set up the system for Arabic (Saudi Arabia) and
typed in the numbers 0 to 9 and this is what I get i.e. the Arabic equivalent
of 0 to 9
ض0123456789
These are Arabic digits not 0,1,2,3, etc.
You can see these Arabic equivalent to the English digits 0,1,2,3 are not
0,1,2,3 etc. but are instead a different set of numerals (I do not know how
else to describe this)

"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" wrote:

Mutley,

the Arabic standards digits would appear and not the Latin numerals 0,1,2
etc.

I really don't understand what you mean with Latin numerals 0, 1,2 The latin
equivalent from those arabic numerals is I, II and III.

The arabic numerals are used in allmost all countries in Europe, America,
Australia and Africa.

Here is wikidi, therefore please make clear what you want.

Arabic Numerals are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals

Cor

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Mutley,

If you cannot describe your problem well, than you will never get a
solution.

Probably did you not even look at the page I tried to show you. I assume now
that you want your characters to be showed as Eastern Arabian-Indic
characters.

I don't know the answer, however you can make a new message and makes it in
that way clear to everybody. In the way you do it now, everybody would
suspect Western Arabic characters).

I hope this helps,

Cor

[C-Services Holland b.v.]

Cor Ligthert [MVP] wrote:

Mutley,

If you cannot describe your problem well, than you will never get a
solution.

Probably did you not even look at the page I tried to show you. I assume now
that you want your characters to be showed as Eastern Arabian-Indic
characters.

I don't know the answer, however you can make a new message and makes it in
that way clear to everybody. In the way you do it now, everybody would
suspect Western Arabic characters).

I hope this helps,

Cor

Maybe Mutley can tell which one of these he would like to see?

http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/ihame/Ref6.htm

How to render those I have no idea though