On 13/05/07, Manfred J. Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Fedora Core 6, I am trying to copy and paste Hebrew text from
> Firefox 2.0.0.2 to Open Office 2.2 Writer / Calc. The text is encoded
> in ISO-8859-8 (one of several Hebrew encodings) from the website
> 999.co.il. When I paste into either Writer or Calc, the text is
> backwards (left to right). What is the solution/ workaround to copying
> and pasting from Firefox? Thanks in advance.
(I don't know if that's the point;
and I'm no good judge of it:
successful(?) with http://www.999.co.il/m9/index.php ) ->
For Writer and Calc -
in my toolbar 'Formatting' there are two symbols:
- Right-To-Left - ¶< - <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<D>
[The text formatted in a complex text layout language is entered from
right to left.]
and
- Left-To-Right - >¶ - <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<A>
[The text is entered from left to right.]
Another way to find it:
- View|Toolbars|Customize...
- Tab 'Keyboard'
- Category: Format
- Function: Right-To-Left/Left-To-Right
[OOo 2.2.0 ([X]CTL) / Firefox 2.0.0.3 / WinXP]
HTH
Manfred
Thanks, Manfred. Turns out that the publicly accessable pages on that
site are fine. Upon further investigation, it turns out that some
pages are encoded with Visual Hebrew, not Logical Hebrew. That means
that the letters appear in reverse order, with some mechanism for
ensuring that the browser will display them left to right. I guess
that was necessary once upon a time. So OOo is displaying them in the
correct order, just that the 'correct' order is backwards!
Dotan Cohen
http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/385/oasis.html
http://wordssongs.com
