I have no experience with how this is supposed to work, but I would like to confirm that this behavior is expected:
1. In Tools > Preferences > Language Settings, set "Cursor movement" to "Logical" (by the way, a tooltip here might be useful). 2. Open the attached file. 3. In Arabic, when I press <Right>, the cursor moves right. In English (the text "ddddddsss"), when I press <Right>, the cursor moves left. The behavior in (3) is the opposite of what I expected. I expected <Right> to be interpretted as "forward" and thus move left in Arabic, and right in English. Which part of the above logic did I get wrong? Scott
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