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Posted by Ben C on 11/16/07 16:08
On 2007-11-16, Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote:
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>> mahatma wrote:
>>> can anyone tell me - are arabic text blocks (ie persian, egyptian, etc)
>>> displayed right-justified, as hebrew is?
>>
>> Arabic is right-to-left written language and should be right aligned.
>>
>> As far as I know hieroglyphs are left-to-right and should be left aligned.
>>
> Such a lot of trouble for such a small and deceased readership.
Aren't hieroglyphs sometimes boustrophedonic? (which CSS doesn't
support).
Arabic has a large non-deceased readership. OP should remember to put
"direction: rtl" or 'dir="rtl"' in the CSS or HTML. Direction: rtl
results in default text-alignment of right, and left-overflow.
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