help!

[sra at linefeed dot org]

Hi, I'm hoping you can help me. I am doing work for a volunteer site
which will be in Arabic. I do not read, write or speak Arabic, though
I am learning a few things :)

They are sending me Arabic text in Microsoft Wordpad (RTF) format. I
need to cut and paste this from my Wordpad window, into a putty window
which is ssh'ed into a FreeBSD box and into vim, which I am using to
edit the html files. 

Everything works fine, vim displays the Unicode characters perfectly.
The problem is this: it reverses the word order of the paste buffer.

So, in english, if I copy "the dog is cute" in Wordpad, when I paste
it into vim it becomes "cute is dog the". 

If I turn on the rightleft option with revins set, it puts "etuc si
god eht". 

I just need it to paste in the original word order. It seems to be
reading the word order as going left-to-right, but it needs to be
right-to-left. I can't figure out a fix for this! Please help!

thank you,
gkd