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Old 08-26-2005, 12:52 PM   #8
BigV
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I haven't gotten a translation yet, but I'm working on it. It is not Arabic, perhaps Farsi or Urdu.

I did find it fascinating that the text flows from right to left. As an experiment, place your cursor in the middle of a line of english text, press and hold the left button down as though you're going to select some text, then drag the mouse cursor downward one line. You'll see the highlight jump to the end of the line, which for English would be to the far right of the line.

Now, release the mouse button and try the exercise again using some of the unknown script-looking text. Mouse cursor in the middle of the line, press and hold the left button, and drag it downward one line. Where does the highlight jump to? To the far LEFT hand side of the line. Just as it should since the flow of the text for this language is right to left, top to bottom. [/nerd]
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