applies to: Mozilla Firefox 53.0 (64-Bit)
It happened by accident… Ctrl+Shift+X
and suddenly your text is written in another direction…i think hebrew is writing from right to left.
Left to right, horizontal
The following writing systems are written from left to right in horizontal lines:
- Ahom,
- Angelic,
- Armenian,
- Balinese,
- Bassa (Vah),
- Beitha Kukju,
- Benjamin Franklin’s Phonetic Alphabet,
- Bengali,
- Blackfoot,
- Blissymbolics,
- Brahmi,
- Buhid,
- Burmese,
- Carrier,
- Celtiberian,
- Cham,
- Cherokee,
- Chinese,
- Coptic,
- Cree,
- Cyrillic,
- Dehong Dai/Tai Le,
- Deseret,
- Devanagari,
- Dhives Akuru,
- Elbasan,
- Ethiopic,
- Fraser,
- Georgian (Asomtavruli),
- Georgian (Nuskhuri),
- Georgian (Mkhedruli),
- Glagolitic,
- Gothic,
- Grantha,
- Greek,
- Gujarati,
- Gurmukhi (Punjabi),
- Hmong,
- Iberian (Southern),
- International Phonetic Alphabet,
- Inuktitut,
- Irish Uncial,
- Javanese,
- Jenticha,
- Kannada,
- Kayah Li,
- Khitan,
- Khmer,
- Korean,
- Kpelle,
- Kulitan,
- Jurchen,
- Lanna,
- Lao,
- Latin,
- Lepcha,
- Limbu,
- Linear A,
- Linear B,
- Loma,
- Lontara/Makasar,
- Malachim,
- Malayalam,
- Manpuri,
- Mayan,
- Modi,
- Mongolian Horizontal Square Script,
- Naxi,
- Ndjuká,
- Ogham,
- Ojibwe,
- Old Church Slavonic,
- Old Permic,
- Odia,
- Passing the River,
- Pitman Initial Teaching Alphabet,
- Pollard Miao,
- Quikscript/Read Alphabet,
- Ranjana,
- Redjang,
- Runic,
- Santali,
- Sharda,
- Shavian,
- Shorthand,
- Siddham,
- Sinhala,
- Solresol
- Somali,
- Sorang Sompeng,
- Sourashtra,
- Soyombo,
- Sundanese,
- Sutton SignWriting,
- Syloti Nagri,
- Tagalog,
- Tagbanwa,
- Tai Dam,
- Tai Lue,
- Tamil,
- Telugu,
- Thai,
- Theban,
- Tibetan,
- Tifinagh,
- Tikamuli,
- Todhri,
- Tocharian,
- Ugaritic,
- Unifon,
- Vai,
- Varang Kshiti,
- Visible Speech,
- Yi
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Right to left, horizontal
The following writing systems are written from right to left in horizontal lines:
- Adlam,
- Ancient Berber,
- Ancient Egyptian (Demotic),
- Ancient Egyptian (Hieratic),
- Ancient Egyptian (Hieroglyphic),
- Aramaic,
- Arabic*,
- Avestan,
- Chinese **,
- Cypriot,
- Enochian,
- Etruscan,
- Hebrew,
- Iberian (Northern),
- Kharosthi,
- Linear B,
- Old Italic,
- Orkhon,
- Mandaic,
- Mende,
- Meroïtic (Cursive),
- Middle Persian,
- Nabataean,
- N’Ko,
- Parthian,
- Phoenician,
- Proto-Elamite,
- Psalter,
- Sabaean,
- Samaritan,
- Sogdian,
- Syriac,
- South Arabian,
- Thaana
*In Arabic numerals are written from left to right.
** In vertical Chinese texts the headings are sometimes written horizontally from right to left across the tops of the columns (see below). This direction is also occasionally used on shop signs.
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