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Old 02-May-2008, 08:38
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Default Re: Right-to-left languages

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Originally Posted by BobK View Post
Is that L-R or R-L at the writer's whim, or was there a system? (And would an old woman doing it be a 'bidi biddy'? )

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Additionally, Greek and Latin, like Chinese and Japanese could be written top to bottom, and therefore could be read either from left to right or right to left.

Note that, in most bidi languages, numbers are usually written/read left to right.

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