David McGlone wrote:
> On Sunday 27 September 2009 1:15:02 pm Alan Gresley wrote:
[...]
> 
> I've been following this thread and have been wondering what the point of rtl 
> is. The only thing I can think of is mirroring an image or a similar effect.
> 
> Could someone clarify. If this was explained on the youtube video posted in 
> thi thread, please don't be upset with me, for youtube is not closed 
> captioned.


In certain languages the glyphs of the script are read form right to 
left instead of left to right for English. These links should help you 
understand.


<http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/>

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2>




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