Arrow keys move the caret to opposing direction with the Arabic keyboard. Why ?

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Arrow keys move the caret to opposing direction with the Arabic keyboard. Why ?

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05-19-2012, 09:03 AM

Belloc

Windows 7 64bit Arrow keys move the caret to opposing direction with the Arabic keyboard. Why ?

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Problems with bi-directional text

Consider the following bidirectional text in MS Word 2010, where the caret was positioned with a mouse click right at the left of the Hebrew letter dalet.

See first image

If I then press Delete, the caret moves to its new position :

See second image

As far as I can understand the caret should not move in this case. Any explanation ?

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