Re: in the NEW YORK TIMES today, report of a USA patent for a met hod to make the Arabic language easier to read/write/typeset

From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang (ytang0648@aol.com)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 09:25:21 EST

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    Chris Jacobs wrote on 3/15/2004, 10:08 PM:

    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "Kenneth Whistler" <kenw@sybase.com>
    > To: <mark@kli.org>
    > Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
    > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:28 AM
    > Subject: Re: in the NEW YORK TIMES today, report of a USA patent for a
    > met
    > hod to make the Arabic language easier to read/write/typeset
    >
    >
    > > Mark Shoulson said:
    > >
    > > > (Me, I think
    > > > it's a cool idea, but I'm notorious for being fascinated by shiny new
    > > > things.)
    > >
    > >‮ a gnieb rof suoiroton m'I tub ,aedi bmud a s'ti kniht I ,eM‬
    > >‮ .tehctorc evitcaer‬
    > >‮ neK --‬
    >
    > ‮If you really typed that in backwards someone should teach you about‬
    > ‮unicode.‬

    Not really, CSS2 is good enough. You don't need unicode to do that.

    Try the following HTML (and CSS2) source in your browser:

    <div style="direction:rtl; unicode-bidi:bidi-override;">
    Try the following HTML (and CSS2) source in your browser:
    </div>

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