[XeTeX] Bidipoem Problem

[Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

When I copy-and-paste the original into TeXworks, I don't
get (on-screen) what I started with.  Presumably this is
because either my e-mail client (Seamonkey) or TeXworks
(V0.4.0; R749) is doing something "wrong" with the ?Arabic?
characters.  In order that I can know which is "wrong",
could someone more familiar with RTL languages tell me
whether, between the outer

\begin{traditionalpoem}

and the nested

\end{traditionalpoem}}
  \end{traditionalpoem}

I should see at on the first line
some ?Arabic? text left, followed immediately by

\footnote{\begin{traditionalpoem}

(as I see in Seamonkey) or whether I should see

<spaces>{footnote{\begin{traditionalpoem<mirrored interrogative><backslash>?Arabic? text

(as I see in TeXworks) ?

Philip Taylor