Re: Vertical Arabic text?

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.

--Ph. D.