Right-to-left Text direction

[Steve Machol]

As far as I can tell, using dir="rtl" should result in the text displaying right-to-left. However the alphanumeric characters are not displaying r-t-l while characters such as ?!@#$%^ do. What am I doing wrong?

http://www.optiboard.com/test2.html

[Dan615]

Probably because alpha-numeric characters are usually made into words, and people are aligning text to the right for formatting reasons...you don't want your words backwards do you? RTL just means it starts on the right and types out to the left, like right-alignment in word...I have no idea why that's making the non-alpha-numeric backwards though

sorry if I'm rambling :)


edit: actually I just noticed that you're using HTML strict, try transitional or something and see how it works

[Steve Machol]

Yes, I'm trying to get the text r-t-l, just like the other characters. The reason I'm asking is because I've had to help two Arabic forums set this up. When I test this out myself, it doesn't work with the English character set.

[Dan615]

I don't think that's possible...and I don't know why the other characters are going in reverse...did you try using a different DOCTYPE/DTD?

[Steve Machol]

No I didn't I'll look into it. Thanks!