Bidirectional Formatting Codes

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
ISO 8859-8
SI 1311
HTML
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 inline element dir="ltr"
Right-to-Left Embedding RLE 202b/8235 fc/252 inline element dir="rtl"
Pop Directional Formatting PDF 202c/8236 dd/221 inline element end tag
Left-to-Right Override LRO 202d/8237 db/219 <BDO dir="ltr">
Right-to-Left Override RLO 202e/8238 dc/220 <BDO dir="rtl">

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