Re: help!

[Fadi Mansour <redeemer at scs-net dot org>]

Hi,

I had some problems with saving word documents in the RTF format,
the reason I came to believe is caused by the spaces between words
usually if you re-write the spaces (to  become right to left) the
word order will be re-established.

I don't have a utility that might help. This is only what I observed.

Fadi

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