diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 5988f0d601..d24276a67a 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-01-15  Dekel Tsur  <dekelts@tau.ac.il>
+
+	* paragraph.C (asString): Remove XForms RTL hacks.
+
 2003-01-13  Alfredo Braunstein <abraunst@libero.it>
 	* buffer.C: fix typo
 
diff --git a/src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog b/src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog
index 1c29e38de9..0814620aa8 100644
--- a/src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/frontends/controllers/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-01-15  Dekel Tsur  <dekelts@tau.ac.il>
+
+	* ControlSpellchecker.[Ch]: Remove XForms RTL hacks.
+
 2003-01-11  Juergen Spitzmueller  <j.spitzmueller@gmx.de>
 
 	* helper_funcs.[Ch]: implement browseDir (browse directory) [bug 824]
diff --git a/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.C b/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.C
index 03ce407d5a..8e94118f0b 100644
--- a/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.C
+++ b/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.C
@@ -30,13 +30,11 @@
 
 #include "frontends/Alert.h"
 
-#include "support/lstrings.h"
-
 #include "BoostFormat.h"
 
 ControlSpellchecker::ControlSpellchecker(LyXView & lv, Dialogs & d)
 	: ControlDialogBD(lv, d),
-	  rtl_(false), newval_(0.0), oldval_(0), newvalue_(0), count_(0),
+	  newval_(0.0), oldval_(0), newvalue_(0), count_(0),
 	  stop_(false), speller_(0)
 {}
 
@@ -64,14 +62,6 @@ void ControlSpellchecker::setParams()
 	}
 #endif
 
-	if (lyxrc.isp_use_alt_lang) {
-		Language const * lang = languages.getLanguage(tmp);
-		if (lang)
-			rtl_ = lang->RightToLeft();
-	} else {
-		rtl_ = buffer()->params.language->RightToLeft();
-	}
-
 	if (!speller_->error().empty()) {
 		emergency_exit_ = true;
 		Alert::alert("The spellchecker has failed", speller_->error());
@@ -153,21 +143,13 @@ void ControlSpellchecker::insert()
 
 string const ControlSpellchecker::getSuggestion() const
 {
-	string miss(speller_->nextMiss());
-
-	if (rtl_)
-		std::reverse(miss.begin(), miss.end());
-
-	return miss;
+	return speller_->nextMiss();
 }
 
 
 string const ControlSpellchecker::getWord() const
 {
-	string tmp = word_.word();
-	if (rtl_)
-		std::reverse(tmp.begin(), tmp.end());
-	return tmp;
+	return word_.word();
 }
 
 
@@ -231,7 +213,6 @@ void ControlSpellchecker::clearParams()
 		view().partialUpdate(2);
 
 	// reset values to initial
-	rtl_ = false;
 	newval_ = 0.0;
 	oldval_ = 0;
 	newvalue_ = 0;
diff --git a/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.h b/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.h
index aa359865cd..8d026dc9ac 100644
--- a/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.h
+++ b/src/frontends/controllers/ControlSpellchecker.h
@@ -71,9 +71,6 @@ private:
 	/// not needed.
 	virtual void apply() {}
 
-	/// right to left
-	bool rtl_;
-
 	/// current word being checked and lang code
 	WordLangTuple word_;
 
diff --git a/src/paragraph.C b/src/paragraph.C
index 248b349d53..bd4a227814 100644
--- a/src/paragraph.C
+++ b/src/paragraph.C
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ using std::fstream;
 using std::ios;
 using std::lower_bound;
 using std::upper_bound;
-using std::reverse;
 
 using lyx::pos_type;
 
@@ -1748,9 +1747,6 @@ string const Paragraph::asString(Buffer const * buffer, bool label) const
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (isRightToLeftPar(bparams))
-		reverse(s.begin() + len,s.end());
-
 	return s;
 }