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Please read MOS:DAB, specifically MOS:DABPIPE (inappropriate piping) and MOS:DABENTRY (there should only be one blue link per entry). Bennv3771 (talk) 15:37, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

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RTL script in RAM

@Cousteau: As far as I can find out in Right-to-left mark#Example of use in HTML​ the first character of a Hebrew text appears on the right of the screen, but is recorded "first" (i.e. at the low address) in RAM. (See also the Talk:Endianness section with Vincent Lefèvre.) So the Hebrew bible would be held in storage starting with the thora at the low addresses. This would mean (as you say) "addresses increasing to the (screen-)left". But because the first char is the most significant one and is at the low RAM-address, this resembles the big-endian convention.
This would mean that right-to-left (RTL) languages do not have an intrinsic conflict in the (RAM-)big-endian systems!? And consequently have an intrinsic conflict in the little-endian systems!?
Or, in your words: "This conflict between the memory arrangements of binary data and text is intrinsic to the nature of the little-endian convention", and ―as we now know― is a conflict for languages written left-to-right, such as English, but also for RTL scripts!?
In the end, there are about 3 coordinates:

1. increasing RAM addresses (simple, but relevant for endianess)
2. "significance":
   1. numeric: most important digit in Positional notation
   2. text string: first character
3. reading direction on paper or screen: LTR or RTL script

As it appears, the reading direction has nothing at all to do with RAM addresses. ―Nomen4Omen (talk) 08:40, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

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Base32 heads-up

Hi Cousteau, this is just to give you a heads-up that I've now done one or two of the edits I talked about with you a while ago, over at Base32, in case you want to take a 9/11 diversion airport. Best, —ReadOnlyAccount (talk) 02:14, 2 December 2023 (UTC)