Hebrew and Arabic are written from right to left, while numbers and other languages are written from left to right. Hebrew software must therefor support both directions. Normally, the software can figure out the intended meaning of the text, but when it cannot formatting codes are used.
Name |
Abbreviation | ISO 10646 Unicode |
Proposed ISO 8859-8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left-to-Right Mark | LRM | 200e/8206 |
fd/253 |
| Right-to-Left Mark | RLM | 200f/8207 |
fe/254 |
| Left-to-Right Embedding | LRE | 202a/8234 |
fb/251 |
| Right-to-Left Embedding | RLE | 202b/8235 |
fc/252 |
| Pop Directional Formatting | 202c/8236 |
dd/221 |
|
| Left-to-Right Override | LRO | 202d/8237 |
db/219 |
| Right-to-Left Override | RLO | 202e/8238 |
dc/220 |
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