Bidirectional Text Support in Text Mode

Bidirectional documents contain text in both directions, usually involving characters from unique types of alphabets.

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 the support for bidirectional text in the Open/Save preferences page. To enable or disable this support, open the Preferences dialog box (Options > Preferences), go to Editor > Open/Save, and choose the appropriate setting in the Support for Special Characters section.

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.

Restriction: Bidirectional content in the Text mode cannot be rendered using Bold or Italic.