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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.

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(C) 1987 ACM 0001-0782/87/0700-0600 $1.50
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without fee as long as credit is given under the masthead copyright
notice.

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