Re: [docbook-apps] Re: RTL/LTR directional tags

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir@arabeyes.org>]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:41, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> I don't speak Arabic and I never tried my suggestion but why not just
> using Unicode's:
> 
> U+202B "RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING"
> 
> Wether the current typical tools for Docbook will implement this
> character properly is another issue... But they should. tell us if it
> works.
> 

That would not be the issue. I find such a work-around hardly
satisfactory. I cannot ask the folks writing documentation to insert
unicode non-visible characters.. 

Arabic and Hebrew share the same issue, so I wonder if any of the Hebrew
speakers have any light to shed.

Regards
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