"unicode-bidi" confusion

I'm having trouble understanding the example in the spec. Can someone
explain to me why

    HEBREW12 HEBREW13

is rendered

    13WERBEH 12WERBEH

given that this is in an ENGLISH PAR, and there is no markup around these
words to reverse the direction?

Braden N. McDaniel
braden@endoframe.com
<URI:http://www.endoframe.com>

Received on Monday, 31 May 1999 03:03:42 UTC