[kdepim-users] Kmail and Right-to-Left languages

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 10:53:05 BST 2008


2008/6/27 Stan Goodman <stan.goodman at hashkedim.com>:
> I am using Kmail v1.9.6 in KDE v3.5.7 under openSuSE v10.3.
>
> In writing a Hebrew message, all looks correct: Hebrew characters are
> displayed, and in the correct order, and lines begin against the
> right-hand margin.
>
> The recipient sees something different, virtually impossible to read:
> Although the characters are still correct, and lines still begin at the
> right-hand margin, the order of the characters is reversed.
>
> It is as though, in English, the name of this list were written
> as "sresu-mipedk".
>
> I have not found a way to correct this, and do not see a clue in the
> documentation available. I would be very grateful for advice.
>

Stan, send me Hebrew email to this address, and also to stan -spot-
goodman -splat- dotancohen -spot- com (You should be able to figure
that out without the spambots figuring it out). I'll look at it and
see what I get.

Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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