On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 19:50:50 +0200 Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Do you see how this is carefully formatted to avoid overflowing an > 80-column line of a typical terminal? Now suppose this is translated > into a RTL language, which causes the Copyright line to start with a > strong R letter (because "Copyright" is translated). You will see the > first line flushed to the right margin, then the next line flushed to > the left margin (because it's a separate paragraph, and starts with a > strong L letter). Then the line which says "The default action..." > will again start at the right. And so on and so forth -- the result > is extremely ugly. Depending on the environment. If you look at it in Notepad, all lines will be LTR or all lines will be RTL. Would not a careful translator either ensure that each non-blank line had a strong character and that all first strong characters were (a) L, (b) R or (c) AL? Text in LTR scripts tends not to be so careful. Richard.