Arabic Smartform - Display text right to left?

I have been asked to investigate how to create some smartforms which will display the Arabic language reading right to left.
I know how to create a smartform for different languages but I'm stuck on the right to left formatting. It's not a case of just right justifying all the text, the words have to be displayed reading right to left.
Any ideas?

Thanks but I've just found out this is not the requirement.

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alimiyan wrote:
> I was using frontpage till yet now i switchover to
Dreamweaver 8. The only
> problem i faced is how to type arabic in Dreamweaver 8
(As arabic is written in
> Right to Left format). Any suggestion is highly
appreciable. Many people in
> Middle east are not using dreamweaver due to this
reason.
> If their is any extention which can solve this issue
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>
> Ali
>
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