A tool to reverse the direction of Hebrew text

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A common problem when working with Hebrew text is that a text editor will get confused and treat the Hebrew text as English text, and will revserse its direction from right-to-left to left-to-right. This reverses the text, making the first letter the last, and making the last the first. I created this little tool, so that when this happens I don't have to retype the Hebrew. To use it, just paste any accidentally-reversed Hebrew text into the box below, click the button, and the directiion of the text will be reversed back to normal.
 

A Better Text Reverse Tool

I recently found this better text reversal tool, written by Steve Morse. I copied his code here so that I could make the form field bigger, allowing for larger amounts of text. Be sure to visit his site for more of his excellent language and translation tools.