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This is in no way an educated guess, but it could be something about dealing with right-to-left language support?

• SahAssar 5y ago
  The actual character bytes do not go end-to-start in RTL text, so I have a hard time seeing it'd be that. I have no better guess though.
  • delaaxe 5y ago
    But maybe humans were typing in reverse?