Arabic indexes

From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 22:53:39 EST

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I have here a book with separate English, Hebrew and Arabic indexes. In
the English index, the indexed words appear (as is conventional)
with a page number after (that is, to the right) of them. In
the Hebrew index, the words likewise appear with a page number
after (that is, to the left) of them.

In the Arabic index, however, the indexed words appear with a page
number before (that is, to the right) of them. Is this regular
practice in Arabic indexing, or some bizarre bidi glitch?

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