In the heading of: http://news.walla.co.il/ts.cgi?tsscript=item&path=2&id=150971 (The heading is the line in bold underneath the second blue bar from teh top). The hyphen at the end of the line is misplaced - it should be placed between the hebrew letter "hey" the '2' Explorer renders this correctly, I've included 2 attachments illustrating how IE renders and how mozilla renders the text. This is on Build 2001112603 under Windows 2000

I see this "problem" all the

Oops, sorry about the spam... I just meant to say that I've seen this "problem" in Mozilla, but assumed that this behavior was the unicode standard and it was IE that is broken... But maybe that's not true. I don't know. Anyway, when I needed such a construct in my own homepage, I enclosed it in a BDO (bidi overide) tag to get the direction the way I wanted.

This is almost certainly a duplicate of bug 73251 (RESOLVED - INVALID), please check & mark duplicate if so.

Nadav and Alastair are both right :-) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73251 ***

By the way, it is common in Hebrew newspapers and books (but unfortunately not on the net, at least not yet) not to use the "hyphen/minus" character, but rather to use the Hebrew "makaf" character, which looks like a higher version of a hyphen. If site authors start using this character (ֿ) instead of the hyphen/minus, the problem of the incorrect order will disappear, because this makaf cannot be confused as being part of the number. Unfortunately all this doesn't help for viewing existing Hebrew sites that use the regular hyphen and assume Windows' bidi behavior.

Using the Hebrew "makaf" is an excellent suggestion which I will adopt myself. It looks a lot better than using – which I used to use as a not very good workaround for this problem. However, you have a typo: it should be ־