I concur with Marcel.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PC :marcel at metaobject.com > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 4:30 PM
> To: tblanchard at etranslate.com
> Cc: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: RE: Unicode support
> > > > Consider this:
> >
> > hebr3 "This is a fine mess" hebr2 hebr1 hebr0
> >
> > if you iterate through the tokens, in what order would you > expect to   > get tokens?
> > if you iterate throught the words, is the order the same?
> > I'd argue that in the word case you want:
> >
> > hebr0
> > hebr1
> > hebr2
> > this
> > is
> > a
> > fine
> > mess
> > hebr3
> > I'd argue that this latter representation is also the > 'natural'  storage organization, with the left-to-right / > right-to-left shown at  the top being a purely visual feature > and therefore specific to the  layout / display of that > particular text / string.  Than again, I  know little about hebrew...
> > Marcel
> > > >