### Bidirectional Support

The Bidirectional Support dialog is used to change the bidirectional characteristics of controls within the dialog or window you are currently designing. You can set the following:

Window orientation:

- Left to right orients the window in the bottom left corner
- Right to left orients the window in the bottom right corner

Text types:

- Visual displays the text type as defined through the text orientation option
- Implicit displays the text in the order of the characters typed on the keyboard

Symmetric swapping types:

- On swaps characters such as brackets, braces and parentheses
- Off does not swap characters such as brackets, braces and parentheses

Text orientation:

- Left to Right displays the text starting from the left and moving to the right
- Right to left displays the text starting from the right and moving to the left
- Contextual displays the text either left to right or right to left based upon the first strong character

Word break types:

- On allows word recognition
- Off prevents word recognition

Numeric types:

- Nominal displays only nominal (i.e. Arabic) numerals
- Pass through displays numerals as stored
- National displays only national (i.e. Hindi) numerals
- Contextual displays numerals based on the surrounding text

Character shape determination:

- Display shaped automatically shapes the text that is stored in a nominal/base shape upon display
- Save shaped the display shaped character shape determination is already shaped and ready for display
- Nominal the nominal character shape determination is displayed and stored in its nominal (base) shapes
- Initial the initial character shape determination is already shaped and ready for display
- Middle the middle character shape determination is already shaped and ready for display
- Final the final character shape determination is already shaped and ready for display
- Isolated the isolated character shape determination is already shaped and ready for display

There are Cancel and Enter buttons along the bottom of the dialog box.