Thanks to those who replied.  I have learnt something.

On 17/08/10 2:41 PM, "Mathew Robertson" <mathew.blair.robert...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>>    GDP per capita
>>         ((Dollars
> - the opening round bracket, which is normally on the LHS of the text,
> must go on the RHS of the text, due to dir=RTL
> - the text then renders LTR as the bidi rules for ascii is LTR.
> - the closing round bracket depends on the bidi rules for the previous
> character (which was LTR), so it displays LTR too.

Thanks.  Am I right in assuming, then, that if I use a RTL language here
instead of the English ASCII the parentheses will be displayed correctly?

- Stephen


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