Bidirectional Text Support in Author Mode

Oxygen XML Editor offers support for languages that require right to left scripts. This means that authors editing documents in the Author mode are able to create and edit XML content in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and others. To achieve this, Oxygen XML Editor implements the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm as specified by the Unicode consortium. The text arrangement is similar to what you get in a modern HTML browser. The final text layout is rendered according with the directional CSS properties matching the XML elements and the Unicode directional formatting codes.

If bidirectional text (such as Arabic or Hebrew languages), certain Asian languages (such as Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Khmer), or other special characters (such as combining characters) are detected in a document, Oxygen XML Editor displays a Special Characters Detected dialog box that prompts you to Enable or Disable support for these special characters.

You can also configure this support in the Support for Special Characters section of the Open/Save preferences page. To enable or disable this support, open the Preferences dialog box and go to Editor > Open/Save.

Note: Disabling this support may affect text rendering, cursor positioning and navigation, as well as text selection and management operations. If you need to open very large documents, the bidirectional editing support can also be disabled to enhance performance while editing.

To watch our video demonstration about the bidirectional text support in the Author mode, go to http://oxygenxml.com/demo/BIDI_Support.html.