It depends on the language and the context. I'm not conversant with Arabic, but 
Hebrew uses both, as does English.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 12:03 PM
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Subject: Re: grep ascii files...

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:02:41 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote:

>Re: “When typing Hebrew or Arabic text on a 3270, does tne cursor move 
>right-to-left?”, I can testify that yes it does.  Quite remarkable when you 
>first see it, but then for numeric fields it moves left to right, just like 
>non-Arabic/Hebrew screens.  And while typing non-numeric characters, the 
>characters you already typed can change as you type other characters, 
>according to the language rules.
>
someone conversant with such languages has posted here that the
spoken convention is low-to-high order: "four and twenty blackbirds."

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gil

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