Re: help!

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at fakkir dot net>]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:09:41PM -0800, sra at linefeed dot org wrote:

Salam,

> 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 :)

Which site?

> 
> 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". 

Okay.. the only thing I can think of right now (and others may have
a different take on this), is if you convert the RTF to a utf-8
encoded file, scp it over to the FreeBSD box, and then edit it from
there, adding the html tags and what have you. 

I hope that helps.

later
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