Posted by Shelly on 09/27/07 15:42

"Sanders Kaufman" <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote in message
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> "Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
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>> Is it simply that the entire string is captured in the quotes and so
>> appears on the screen as right to left? If that is the case, then what
>> happens with word wrap?
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> I don't understand the question.
> You had me up until word-wrap.
> When you echo a string, as shown - it spits the result out to std_out as
> composed.
> There's no word-wrap unless the client is doing something like that.
> Does that help answer the question?

As one example, if you have a table of fixed column width and allow
multi-line (a not uncommon situaton), then the text will wrap. What happens
if that text is supposed to be right to left? Treating it all as a one left
to right string will cause it to wrap incorrectly. Does that help you
understand the question?

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>> Wouldn't it then break at the beginning of the sentence rather than in
>> the middle? (I have only worked on English sites).
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> Huh? Not in any context I can think of.

"ggg fff eee ddd ccc bbb aaa" will wrap as, for example,

"ggg fff eee ddd"
"ccc bbb aaa"

because it assumes left to right. In a right to left language, aaa is the
the first word, bbb the second, etc. We would want it to wrap as:

"ddd ccc bbb aaa"
" ggg fff eee"

That is what I meant. How does one make that kind of thing happen. A
simple echo will wrap incorrectly.

Shelly

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