Re: new conlang, and my e-mail program just switched from left to right to right to left?!?!

From: "Robert B Wilson" <han_solo55@...>
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:25:22 -0500 Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...>
> writes:
>
> > btw, can anyone tell me why my e-mail program did this?
>
> apparently it didn't send the message like that.  now i'm really
> wondering why it did that.  i just exited and started the program again
> and it was normal.  i guess i should explain exactly what it did: the
> text stayed the same, but everything was left aligned, punctuation marks
> at the beginning and end of lines were switched, and '>' turned into '<'.
>  does anyone have any idea why it did this?
If you're using Windows XP (and possibly other Windows OSes) hitting CTRL and
the *right* shift key simultaneously turns on RTL input.

I kept doing this accidentally, myself... recently I found that it can be
reversed by hitting CTRL and the *left* shift key

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