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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 03:19:17 GMT
From: "Bernard A. Badger" <bernard.badger@MCI2000.com>
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References: <6a5ak8$1mr$1@gte2.gte.net>, <6ao44c$ncu$1@uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: Hebrew
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Alan D Corre wrote in message <6ao44c$ncu$1@uwm.edu>...
>In article <6a5ak8$1mr$1@gte2.gte.net> evans@gte.net (MJE) writes:
>>
>>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?
>>
>>(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?
Just stop thinking of the text as being stored right-to-left. Store it
beginning-to-end.
You just have to adjust the Output to appear right-to-left. The problem is
purely with output devices that go left-to-right. Internally, you should be
operating start-to-end.
The same thing occurs with hex-dump programs. For little-endian
architectures, the
output should look like this:
4f4e4d4c 4b4a4948 47464544 43424140 : 00000000 "@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO"
Where the part before the ":" runs right-to-left and the string runs
left-to-right.
Both represent the same string, it is the output that varies.
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