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  2. Right-to-left script - Wikipedia

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    A woman writing in Persian in right-to-left direction, with a notebook computer displaying right-to-left text. Right-to-left, top-to-bottom text is supported in common computer software. [2] Often, this support must be explicitly enabled. Right-to-left text can be mixed with left-to-right text in bi-directional text.

  3. Boustrophedon - Wikipedia

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    An example, in English, of boustrophedon as used in inscriptions in ancient Greece (Lines 2 and 4 read right-to-left.) Boustrophedon (/ ˌ b uː s t r ə ˈ f iː d ən / [1]) is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style. This is in contrast to modern European ...

  4. Category:Right-to-left writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Right-to-left writing systems, where writing starts from the right of the page and continues to the left, proceeding from top to bottom for new lines. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.

  5. Bidirectional text - Wikipedia

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    Bidirectional script support is the capability of a computer system to correctly display bidirectional text. The term is often shortened to "BiDi" or "bidi".Early computer installations were designed only to support a single writing system, typically for left-to-right scripts based on the Latin alphabet only.

  6. Writing system - Wikipedia

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    A writing system comprises a set of symbols, called a script, ... Left-to-right writing has an advantage that, since most people are right-handed, [45] ...

  7. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    After first writing right to left, like the Phoenicians, the Greeks eventually chose to write from left to right. Occasionally however, the writer would start the next line where the previous line finished, so that the lines would read alternately left to right, then right to left, and so on.

  8. World’s oldest writing system may have its origins in ...

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    A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, according to new research.

  9. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Horizontal writing is written left to right in the vast majority of cases, with a few exceptions such as bilingual dictionaries of Chinese and right-to-left scripts like Arabic, in which case Chinese may follow the right-to-left alignment. Right-to-left writing direction can also often be seen on the right side of tourist buses, as it is ...