[ipac] Non-roman display, weird order?

[Jonathan Rochkind]

I'm also filing this with SD, but figured I'd ask here too.

This is a question for anyone that's dealt with non-roman, and 
particularly Hebrew or other right-to-left languages. I have added 880 
fields to my MARC maps to display these in HIP, but something weird is 
going on.

I have a MARC record that has an 880 corresponding to a 100 that looks 
something like this:
880 1 $6 100-01 $a [Hebrew name in Hebrew chars], $d 1927-

This is included by my MARC map for the field I display as "Author", 
succesfully. It winds up in my HTML source looking fairly good, with the 
hebrew chars converted to HTML entities:

שעכטער, מרדכי, 1927-


So far so good. But when my browser displays it (Firefox , IE7 and even 
IE6), it displays as:

1927 [Hebrew chars] -

Note that the "1927" has been separated from it's dash, somehow!  And 
this is completely wrong. My only guess is that this somehow has 
something to do with the right-to-left nature of Hebrew, and somehow the 
browsers are trying to do the 'right' thing, but messing up entirely. (I 
could be completely wrong with this guess, as I'm surprised to see 
browsers doing this weird thing).

I can reproduce this in a simple test case in an HTML page of my making. 
"[hebrewchar], 1927-" in source, displays in my browser window as:
"1927 ,[hebrew char]-".  The hebrew chars end up ... moved. Not even 
pushed to the extreme right, becuase it's still before the "-".

Does anyone have any ideas at all what's going on and how I might fix 
this in HIP to display properly?

An example record is:
http://bart.mse.jhu.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?index=BIB&term=2640055


Note under "Author" it says has a Romanized author name that is fine, 
and a ("vernacular") Hebrew author name that is in a weird order, which 
does not match the HTML source!

Jonathan
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