How to enter numbers in Arabic?

Question

Hi All,
How to write numbers in arabic?
(how will you in normal papers....assume 123 to be in the arabic numerals here).
Should it be:
| -123|
(or)
| 123-|
Thanks,
Jana

Answer 1

I won't say I am very clear about this topic. But I will give an example, which seems to show that number (in the double type) is logically of the form -000.00 while locale spacific String object can be both of the forms "000.00-" and "-000.00"
// you can show the string below (formatted) on a JLabel with the following
//<JLabel_instance>.setFont(new Font("Lucida Sans", Font.PLAIN, 22));
NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getInstance(new java.util.Locale("ar","EG"));
//NumberFormat nf = NumberFormat.getInstance(new java.util.Locale("fr","Fr"));   // compare
DecimalFormat df=null;
DecimalFormatSymbols dfs= null;
  if (nf instanceof DecimalFormat) {
      df = (DecimalFormat)nf;
      dfs = df.getDecimalFormatSymbols();
      dfs.setZeroDigit('\u0660');// set the beginning of the range to Arabic digits.. this can be commented out
      df.setDecimalFormatSymbols(dfs);
  String formatted = nf.format(-1234567.89);