<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Kenneth,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The main issue here is not the fonts, but whether your text is in logical order or visual order, according to the unicode bidirectional algorithm. See:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://unicode.org/reports/tr9/">https://unicode.org/reports/tr9/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It is correct that if your output is pdf like, then there is no meaning of left-to-right, or right-to-left, (unless the user wants to highlight a section of text from your PDF file and do copy and paste).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">However, for a freeflow text format like the Kindle, where the user can choose the font size, the application must be able to reflow the text, and to do that correctly it must apply the Bidi algorithm on the text. I assume this is the meaning of "not being able to handle Hebrew characters", they really mean that they don't support the Bidi algorithm.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I know that there are a number of EPub readers that are bidi aware, but that is probably not of much help to you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I hope this helps.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 6:27 AM kenneth greifer via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-1140535799763873102">
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Hi. I know nothing about unicode or fonts or anything about this subject or computers at all, but I just wanted to ask people a few questions about computers and Hebrew fonts. I might not even understand your answer, if you choose to answer me, but I still
want to ask because this issue has bothered me for many years, and I recently decided to try to look up people to ask about it. </div>
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When I use Hebrew fonts in a word processor called Wordperfect, and then I publish to PDF, it often reverses the order of the letters. For some reason, when I change the English font I use, it makes it possible for the Hebrew font to type left to right like
English, so I type Hebrew words from the end of the word to the beginning. Even though it is strange, for some reason, the PDF version has the letters in the right order and does not reverse the letters. </div>
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When I try to self-publish some of my work on Amazon KDP, which is Kindle, they say that Kindle ebook readers can't handle Hebrew characters. I would like to know if there exists a left to right version of fonts for languages that are written right to left
like Hebrew. If there were left to right versions of these fonts, then people could have an easier time mixing Hebrew and English or other languages in books on ebook readers. Of course, they would have to type the words in reverse order, which can be confusing,
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I hope this question is ok for this list. I don't plan to really ask anything else, except maybe how to get fonts like this to exist if they don't currently exist. Thanks for your time. </div>
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