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   Michiel van der Vlist to Nick Boel   
   Happy New Year   
   01 Jan 26 21:46:49   
   
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   Hello Nick,   
      
   On Wednesday December 31 2025 18:36, you wrote to me:   
      
    NB> First off, Happy new year!   
      
   Same to you.   
      
    NB> Second, and just something I noticed for the first time, but are these   
    NB> the only two languages out of the entire list that are supposed to be   
    NB> read from right to left?   
      
   AFAIK...   
      
    NB> For some reason out of nowhere.. I replied to it, and decided to hit   
    NB> and hold right arrow (and never let off until it got to the end of the   
    NB> message) and let the cursor go through the text. Sure enough, when it   
    NB> got to these it was going left to right over "Arabic: " and "Hebrew: "   
    NB> and then jumped to the end of the text and scrolled backwards to the   
    NB> beginning of it, then continued to the end of the line first, then to   
    NB> the next line and was back to left to right.   
      
    NB> I found it pretty amusing that the Linux console actually knew better   
    NB> and followed the text correctly. ;)   
      
   Interesting observation! Windows does not seem to be that smart. ;-)   
      
      
   Cheers, Michiel   
      
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