On 4/23/2011 2:18 AM, Smokey Ardisson wrote:
>
> Just pretend I never said that paragraph you replied to; I wasn't
> completely awake when I wrote that and I had forgotten the key bit of
> the problem: non-Mac WP required you to enter characters
> backwards/LTR to begin with (I was thinking for some reason that the
> characters were in the correct order in the file and would work
> properly in a bidi-aware word processor if only we'd mapped to the
> normal codepoints) :-P
>

Smokey,

I haven't looked into the file structure of WP 5.1 Hebrew and Arabic, 
but both of those versions expected you to enter Hebrew and Arabic text 
from right to left. There are codes that switch direction.

I haven't tested libwpd, but presumably it handles this?

Edward

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