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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Joel Nothman <jnothman AT student.usyd.edu.au>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew email & RTL
  • Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:21:23 -0700

On 17/04/2004 03:18, Joel Nothman wrote:


I wrote earlier

In windows there is a nice shortcut that should work anywhere you can

enter

text. Press Right-Ctrl-Shift to write right-to-left and Left-Ctrl-Shift to

write

left-to-right. (ie. press left ctrl and left shift at the same time, etc.)




On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:38:09 -0500, Dora Smith <villandra AT austin.rr.com> wrote:

It doesn't work. You mean press the right-hand shift and control keys
together, right?

Yours,
Dora Smith


Ctrl then shift, while still holding ctrl... But I think I forgot to note this is unlikely to work pre-Windows XP.... Windows 95/98 have not-very-good Hebrew support, so I never tried when I used them!

- Joel



Also I think you have to set up this key combination as an option somewhere. It might be the default in XP. Probably it doesn't so much shift from RTL to LTR or vice versa as shift between two different keyboards, Hebrew and English if those are the two you have set up. Things will be more complicated if you have more keyboards.

And as Joel says, it doesn't work so simply in Windows 95.

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Peter Kirk
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