Bidirectional settings preferences
You can modify the following bidirectional settings preferences in the Preferences window. These preferences pertain to the display and ordering of bidirectional information, alignment and orientation of bidirectional fields, and swapping of braces and numeric characters.
Preferences
In the navigation pane of the Preferences window, expand the category.
Select Bidirectional options enabled to allow modification of the following bidirectional language preferences. When this options is selected, the following set of bidirectional settings are made available in the BMS editor toolbar. Selected preferences specify the default for each newly loaded map set.- Enable visual data ordering
- Sets the display and editing of bidirectional data in the design form, the field properties window, and the Properties and Outline views based on visual ordering of bidirectional text instead of the default logical ordering.
- Enable bidirectional settings button
- Places a bidirectional settings button on the Design Page options toolbar
with the caption
Toggle bidirectional mode
.
- Default RTL orientation
- Mirrors the orientation of map sets, simulating how the data is displayed on the remote system terminal when the screen is reversed. This option allows a developer of bidirectional software to design reversed (right to left) screens.
- Default right alignment
- Causes the fields added in the Design Page to be right-aligned. In the source file, right-aligned fields are padded with leading spaces.
- Enable symmetric swapping
- Causes symmetric swapping for brackets, braces, and parenthesis to be done automatically according to the currently used language. For example, in a right-to-left string, the parenthesis characters ( and ) are reversed. This option is needed only for Arabic support.
- Enable numeric swapping
- Causes numeric swapping for numbers from Arabic to Hindi and vice versa to be done automatically according to the currently used language.