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  7. From: Otfried Geffert <og@stardivision.de>
  8. Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:42:42 GMT
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  10. Subject: Re: Hebrew
  11. To: evans@gte.net (MJE)
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  23.  
  24. Hi Mark,
  25.  
  26. you can use newtext :=3D reverse("dragon")=20
  27. or
  28. work through a string from right to left
  29. with=20
  30.   d  r  a  g  o  n
  31. -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 (indices)
  32.  
  33. and not (the normal way)
  34.  
  35.   d r a g o n
  36.  ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
  37.  1 2 3 4 5 6 7  (indices)
  38.  
  39. Otfried
  40.  
  41.  
  42. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
  43.  
  44. Am 1/21/98, 06:17:09 PM, schrieb evans@gte.net (MJE) zum Thema Hebrew:
  45.  
  46.  
  47. >=20
  48. > Hebrew is a right-to-left language.  Icon is oriented toward=20
  49. left-to-right
  50. > analysis, from all that I can tell.
  51. >=20
  52. > (1) Can Icon be reoriented to go right-to-left?
  53. >=20
  54. > (2) Failing that, are there any pitfalls in simply reversing the text =
  55.  
  56. of the
  57. > Hebrew, and running Icon left-to-right against the reversed text?
  58. >=20
  59. > Mark Evans
  60. > evans@gte.net
  61. >=20
  62. >=20
  63. >=20
  64.  
  65.  
  66.  
  67.