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Suppose the writer wishes to inject a run of Arabic or Hebrew (i.e. right-to-left) text into an English paragraph, with an exclamation point at the end of the run on the left hand side. "I enjoyed staying -- really! -- at his house." With the "really!" in Hebrew‏, the sentence renders as
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is used to change the way adjacent characters are grouped with respect to text direction. However, for
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This happens because the browser recognizes that the paragraph is in a LTR script (
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With an RLM added after the exclamation mark, it renders as follows:
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Unicode standard annex #9: The bidirectional algorithm
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