Tutorial on RTL/LTR & BIDI in Arabic/Hebrew
The tutorial technically Creating SVG Tiny Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and other Right-to-Left Scripts, but it actually provides an excellent explanation of how Unicode specifies text direction and how you need to encode both RTL (right to left) and LTR (left to right) in a Middle Eastern text which includes European words as BIDI (Bidirectional).
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