Re: Emacs pretest 24.0.90

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 09:38:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: nabil-82 <address@hidden>
> 
> After choosing the
> arabic-input-metho I can't put the "eastern-arabic-digits". I get the arabic
> ones (so they are called). But in the (eastern) arabic countries they're not
> used so often "eastern-arabic" ones. 
> arabic: 0 1 2 3 ...
> "eastern-arabic": 
> ٠‎ - ١‎ - ٢‎ - ٣‎ - ٤‎ - ٥‎ - ٦‎ - ٧‎ - ٨‎ - ٩
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Arabic_numerals
> 
> What I did: I've changed leim/quail/arabic.el  (put the 10 rules for the
> eastern arabic digits)
> It works - now. Could I have complications later?

No, I wouldn't expect complications.

> Is there a better solution?

You could type the arabic digits after turning off the input method,
i.e.

  C-\
  type something in Arabic
  C-\
  type digits
  C-\
  type more Arabic