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From: wdr@faron.UUCP (William D. Ricker)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Right-to-left languages (was Re: Character representation)
Message-ID: <231@faron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 10:04:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: faron.231
Posted: Wed Aug 26 10:04:51 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Aug-87 04:20:28 EDT
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Reply-To: wdr@MITRE-Bedford.ARPA (William D. Ricker)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
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Keywords: Arabic Script layout Hebrew mixed language word processing
Summary: CACM Vol 30 # 7 July 1987

In article <8480@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
> ...   Don't
>forget the right-to-left problems in Arabic and Hebrew, for that matter.
>I don't know what the best answer is, and am not convinced that anyone else
>does either.  Hence "wait and see".  My sympathy goes out to the people who
>have compelling commercial reasons to do something about these issues now;
>it can't be much fun.

Joseph D. Becker of Xerox Information Systems Division, Sunnyvale, CA,
wrote an article "Arabic Word Processing", p. 600 in /Communications of
the ACM/ Vol. 30 No.7 (July 1987) which discusses the challenges of
Middle-Eastern text processing, focussing primarily on Arabic but also
covering Hebrew.

Publisher's abstract:

	"Recently developed word processing software can
	correctly format the cursive, interacting letters of the
	Arabic script.  Moreover, new layout procedures can
	automatically intermix right-to-left Arabic writing with
	left-to-right text in European or other languages."

I recommend this article to anyone considering international text
processing, which is probably most of the readership of this
news.group.

The article's Copyright Clearance Center code is:
(C) 1987 ACM 0001-0782/87/0700-0600 $1.50
Non-commercial copies and abstracting are specifically permitted
without fee as long as credit is given under the masthead copyright
notice.

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  William Ricker
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