Displaying non-ascii numerals (digits) in native language

Hello
I have been looking through the forums and docs on OTN and haven't been able to determine whether or not Oracle has builtin support for converting numerals.
I know that is has support for Date and Time formats, Monetary and Numeric formats (position of decimal and comma), and Calender formats. Also, according to the NLS FAQ...
What does the language part of NLS_LANG control?
The languages used for Oracle messages, of day and month names etc.
...Oracle can even automatically translate messages and day/month names. My question is, can it also automatically translate numerals. If my database character set is set to UTF-8 and I insert the number 1285 into a NUMBER datatype column, can I pull that number out in a different language than what it was inserted as? If a user of my site is using a Thai locale for instance, I want him to see digits 0-9 not as 0123456789, but digits in Thai language.
If it doesn't support that, then how do multi-language applications deal with numerals? Do they always store numerals in char or varchar2 datatypes? If non-ascii numerals are stored as char/varchar2, how are mathematical equations done? For instance, how would a multi-language calculator work?
I'd appreciate any insight that can be offered.
Thanks
-Matt

There is some support for numeric month conversion for Asian languages but not for Thai as far as I know.
Arabic, Thai, and Indic languages have classical shapes for numbers that are different from the conventional western digits most often used on computers.
Unicode provides separate code points for each digit shape. So it would be straight forward to substitute a Thai number for numbers 0-9. Displaying these with the appropriate shape is subject to the available fonts and usually means the front end GUI must be able to handle Unicode.

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