Re: OT (Kind of): Determining whether Locales are left-to-right or

[John Cowan]

Tex Texin wrote:

> For example, the case that you are suggesting goes off the rails,
> is exactly what the user would want if he were going to
> query the list of just Arabic and Israeli records and then copy and
> paste them into perhaps a spreadsheet.

Is it?  I've never seen a RTL localized spreadsheet program;
perhaps the A1 column appears rightmost, in which case pasting the
logical-order would make the text end up with country in A (rightmost),
firstname in B, lastname in C.  Which is what you want.

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