2013-02-07 12:21, Raymond Mercier wrote:
This problem is not precisely about Unicode - or is it?
Directionality of characters is a Unicode issue.
If I have a Hebrew text displayed in Adobe Acrobat I can select part of it and can paste it into Word. The trouble is that while individual characters are correctly displayed the order is reversed.
Do you mean the commercial Adobe Acrobat software for creating PDF documents, or the free Adobe Reader (previously called Adobe Acrobat Reader) for viewing and printing (and commenting on) PDF documents?
Thus if I have in Acrobat קודמ (meaning 'prior') when pasted into Word I get םדוק
Odd things may happen in copy and paste. I don’t have Adobe Acrobat, but I played with your sample word, writing it in MS Word, saving as PDF, and copying the word back to MS Word, when viewing the PDF document in a PDF viewer. Using Adobe Reader, it got copied correctly, but using Foxit Reader (the second most common free PDF viewer), its character order got reversed. The same happens when pasting in a plain text editor.
Yucca
