The numbers are from left to right Here is some example of hebrew (it look correctly in gmail/firefox) זאת הודעה בעברית המספרים נכתבים משמאל לימון לדוגמה: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 150, 123456789
On Nov 4, 2008 3:06pm, Bourgneuf Francois <francois.bourgneuf@groupe-mma.fr> wrote: > > Just a precision, in > arabic and hebrew both text and numbers are written right to > left. > > In western languages text > is written left to right and numbers right to left. > > You can't tell the value > of the left digit of a number if you havent read how many digit are at his > right. > > We solve additions from the right to the > left. > > > > Bour9 > > > > > > > > De : > help-gnu-emacs-bounces+francois.bourgneuf=groupe-mma.fr@gnu.org > [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+francois.bourgneuf=groupe-mma.fr@gnu.org] De > la part de cyberkm@gmail.com > Envoyé : mardi 4 novembre 2008 > 12:45 > À : help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Objet : Re: Re: > emacs + unicode + hebrew + bidi > > > > > Thank you, but unforunatly, it is not a solution - > Hebrew is not > simple right to left > its a BI-Directional. Then text is written from rtl > the number ltr, what > about the punctuation signs, spaces and etc.. > the > bi-di code is very complex > > On Nov 4, 2008 5:05am, "B. T. Raven" > nihil@nihilo.net> wrote: > > B. T. Raven wrote: > > > > > > > B. T. Raven wrote: > > > > > > Pavel wrote: > > > > > > > Hi everybody, i would like to know if the combination i > mentioned in the > > > > subject is possible. > > > > I > would like to write Hebrew latex documents in emacs, but unfortunately > the > > > > Hebrew is reversed. > > > > Thanx > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > As a kludge you could > type everything left to right and then apply this function to the whole > buffer: > > > > > > > > (defun reverse-bstring > (str) > > > > (apply #'string (nreverse (string-to-list > (buffer-string)))) > > > > > > > > There is something > perverse about it since it doesn't seem to need to be passed a string but, > anyway, evaluating it in *Scratch* produces this: > > > > > > > > > " > > > > ))))gnirts-reffub( tsil-ot-gnirts( esrevern( > gnirts'# ylppa( > > > > )rts( gnirtsb-esrever nufed( > > > > > > > > > ..reffub nwo s'elif taht ni txet eht retne neht ;; > > > > > ,f-C x-C htiw elif taht tisiv ,elif a etaerc ot tnaw uoy fI > ;; > > > > ..noitaulave psiL rof dna ,evas ot tnaw t'nod uoy seton > rof si reffub sihT ;;" > > > > > > > > Ed > > > > > > > > > > > Of course you want to do this line by line, not to > the whole buffer, since in Hebrew and Arabic you start at the back of the book > but not at the bottom of the page. O well, back to the drawing board. > > > > > > > > > > > You could then demarcate the above text as > a region and then run M-x reverse-region on it. It's still a kludge but it > might work on multi-byte buffers. > > >