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

From: "Muke Tever" <mktvr@...>
> 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
...er, and enter, which is just above the shift key, hit at the same time as
ctrl, sends the message you happen to be typing...

Um.

Incidentally the standard cursor has a little hook on the upper-right which
indicates the direction the next character will appear in (if you switch to
Hebrew input, for example, it will reverse).

    *Muke!
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