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Got Those Bidirectional Blues

by James Duguid | May 27, 2018

Anyone who has tried to work with mixed Hebrew and English text has probably had some difficulties, especially with punctuation (e.g., parentheses get flipped around, and show up in the wrong places). While Unicode bidirectional formatting is a wonderful thing, it has some trouble with characters which could be interpreted as requiring either right-to-left or left-to-right formatting. This post details a simple Unicode fix that should solve some of your problems.