[OS X TeX] %18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?

[Eric Jablow]

On Feb 4, 2008, at 6:01 PM, David Watson wrote:

> I asked an Egyptian friend of mine in graduate school about this,  
> and his immediate response was that it should be placed on the left.  
> There may be some difference between Egyptian arabic and other forms  
> of arabic, but he didn't seem to make any distinction of such a  
> custom.
>

Is the percent sign mirrored too? I'm guessing that it is replaced  
with Unicode U+066A, ARABIC PERCENT SIGN.  See http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0600.pdf 
.  Look at page 4 of that, marked as p. 50 in print.

Respectfully,
Eric Jablow