When building a graph or chart for use by right-to-left languages such as Arabic should the labels also change? For instance it is generally accepted in my English speaking culture that lower numbers are on the left and higher on the right
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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Would this flip to look like?
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2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
I hunted around to find examples but I could find examples of both graphs which maintain the left-to-right ordering even when presented in an Arabic context and those which switched.
Answer
Short answer is don't put years in reverse order for Arab audience or other languages like Hebrew or Urdu which is written right to left.
Numerals in every language are written left to right and putting lower values on the left and higher on the right is standard. Considering that, it is a standard to have lower values on the left and higher values on the right which also holds true for years.
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