Ph. D. wrote:

>
> i18n@... said:
> >
> > Hi all -
> >
> > I was at an event last night on the topic of outsourcing
> > and one of the tables was decorated with flags. One flag,
> > ostensibly Pakistani, had Arabic or similar text along
> > the left vertical edge. Clearly, the text was written in
> > vertical orientation, which I had never seen before for
> > that script. So one question that came to mind is, is
> > Arabic written vertically, and if so, when? And also, if
> > so, then is it written bottom to top or top to bottom?
>
> Perhaps it was Mongolian? They use a connecting
> script which is written from top to bottom.

But Mongolian doesn't look much like Arabic ...
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...