Calendar: display arabic numerals

[robert_j]

Locale: ar-sa IE9 Win 7

I have a page hosting an umm al qura Calendar widget with the following in the head:

<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=edge" >

The months and days are all displayed correctly in arabic but the numbers for the years and days are still in English.

If I force the content to be IE7 it will display correctly.

See attached image

[robert_j]

IE 8 vs IE 7 Arabic locale Umm Al Quara

[bill]

Hmm, that's strange, well please attach a test case so I can debug it, thanks.

[robert_j]

After looking further into the issue it seems to be down to the way different versions of IE handle Digit Substitution in Windows and not an issue with the control itself.

When the "Use Native Digits" setting is set to "National" in Windows IE7 will substitute all digits with Arabic digits but IE9 no longer performs this substitution. Both Chrome and Firefox also don't perform any digit substitution.

If you create a page with a simple div containing numbers e.g. <div>123456789</div> and set the machines locale to Arabic, the "Use Native Digit" flag to "National" and display the page in IE9 you will notice the digits appear in Western/European? digits as expected. If you hit F12 and change the Document mode to IE7 you will notice the digits change to Arabic digits.

This is the same behaviour I was seeing with the calendar.

This bug can be closed.

Thanks

[bill]

OK, well I'll close it as "patch welcome" because it could still be an enhancement. We already have an ​Islamic calendar in dojox but it still uses the standard western digits.