Connected auther name when RTL

hefetza

Hello,
When I insert a footnote in Hebrew (which is RTL) with the Chicago Manual of Style (full note) I get the author name backwords and connected. For example, say I wanted to put in a book by Karl Marx (in Hebrew of course) than I'd get:

MarxKarl, [...]
instead of:
Karl Marx, [...]

This means I have to go over every footnote I have in Hebrew and fix it..
Any idea how I can solve this?

fbennett

A number of languages reverse names from little-endian order (English, Russian, Persian etc). Happily, we have so far been able to discriminate these by their scripts (Latin-1, Cyrillic, Arabic). It sounds like Hebrew should be added to that set.

If you can point to a page that provides a reliable list of Hebrew characters in Unicode, I can make the modification to the processor and post an immediate-update plugin. Otherwise it might be awhile before I get around to fetching the necessary information from the Internets. But this sounds like an easy issue, once we have that information to hand.

hefetza

Thanks for your reply.
I wasn't quite sure what you meant but anyway see if these are ok:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.i18nguy.com%2Funicode%2Fhebrew.html&ei=tvADUO3HL-Sp4gTqvdjACA&usg=AFQjCNFSP00cjDQ82rot7YRcnPpvEMLKSg

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CF4QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Funicode.org%2Fcharts%2FPDF%2FU0590.pdf&ei=tvADUO3HL-Sp4gTqvdjACA&usg=AFQjCNGT6SCee2JWZgvSw7OPwtTSVL9Mbw

fbennett

That's the stuff. Try installing this plugin and see if you get better results.

hefetza

It worked! Thanks a lot!

fbennett

Thanks for reporting back, that's very good to hear.