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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:03:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Ramon Pereda <rpereda@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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To: MJE <evans@gte.net>
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On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, MJE wrote:
> Hebrew is a right-to-left language. Icon is oriented toward left-to-right
> analysis, from all that I can tell.
>
> (1) Can Icon be reoriented to go right-to-left?
No. If that is what you want it is cleaner to just reverse the
string before scanning. There are all ready too many dyslexic
people in the world. Have mercy.
> (2) Failing that, are there any pitfalls in simply reversing the text of the
> Hebrew, and running Icon left-to-right against the reversed text?
Make sure you reverse the order of the words but not the letters in the
words. At least I think that is what you want to do. I saw the
Dead Sea Scrolls and I don't remember having to have my eyes jump
all over the place. I'm a little confused as to how Hebrew is written
in ASCII.
-ray