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Devine Lu Linvega

@nasser is the order of the characters reversed? I've seen this in the Arabic version of BASIC on the MSX but I couldn't tell from which side they were read.

11 March at 19:39 | Open on merveilles.town
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Ramsey Nasser

@neauoire even in conventional arabic writing the direction of numbers is "backwards" relative to the direction of the text, so it wouldnt be jarring to an arabic reader.

related -- look what arrived the other day (sakhr basic cart complete w/manual)

photo of an open box containing a manual for sakhr basic in arabic and its cartridge
11 March at 19:43 | Open on merveilles.town
Devine Lu Linvega

@nasser omg! that's the system I'm looking at right now!! Wow, do you have an msx?

It's funny I was just talking to @256k about this very cart.
11 March at 19:45 | Open on merveilles.town
Ramsey Nasser

@neauoire @256k yeah!!! thats the one. i have a sakhr in my studio with a logo cart and now basic 🥳 no manual for the logo cart though, just guessing at commands lol

11 March at 19:46 | Open on merveilles.town
Devine Lu Linvega

@nasser @256k Thanks okay, that's good to know. So if you were to represent a hexdecimal number in an arabic system and didn't have latin characters, what would you do?

11 March at 19:46 | Open on merveilles.town
Ramsey Nasser

@neauoire @256k its tricky because letters standing on their own are jarring to look at -- you really want them to join. then when they join youre going to read them as words. standalone letters arent really a thing in arabic and it extends to difficulties eg making acronyms (theyre very rare and the ones that do exist generally spell out a word)

11 March at 19:49 | Open on merveilles.town
Devine Lu Linvega

@nasser @256k
Once you start poking with sakhr basic, I'd love to know if they say anything about hexdecimal modes for numerals in it. From screenshots I could find, it's always ever decimal, but I wonder if they extend the hindu-arabic numeric set, or it extends the arabic numeral set.
11 March at 20:03 | Open on merveilles.town
256k

@neauoire @nasser I’m also really curious about this. Never saw Arabic hex mode personally. It feels weird thinking it would be something like ٣ت

11 March at 20:06 | Open on c.im
Devine Lu Linvega

@256k @nasser I'm more curious wether they use $7a, or $Ù§a

11 March at 20:09 | Open on merveilles.town
256k

@neauoire @nasser ohh yeah I see what you mean. Considering the numbers on those screenshots are hinduarabic I’m guessing the latter. But yeah fascinating.

11 March at 20:11 | Open on c.im
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