TX Text Control X10 Roadmap: Right-to-Left, Arabic and Hebrew support

320 million people in our world are speaking the Arabic language and about 7 million people are speaking Hebrew. These languages use a different character set than Latin based languages and are written from right-to-left.

For word processors, this is a very complex task. One feature of our next version TX Text Control X10 (20.0) is the support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.

The specialty of right-to-left languages is the mixture of right-to-left parts with left-to-right sentences:

TX Text Control X10 Roadmap: Right-to-Left, Arabic and Hebrew support

Take notice of the selection in the above sample: TX Text Control has two selection directions.

All other features are completely vertically flipped. Consider a numbered list:

TX Text Control X10 Roadmap: Right-to-Left, Arabic and Hebrew support

The button bar has two new buttons to change the direction of a paragraph:

TX Text Control X10 Roadmap: Right-to-Left, Arabic and Hebrew support

Additionally, the directions of the Text Control rulers are flipped as well:

TX Text Control X10 Roadmap: Right-to-Left, Arabic and Hebrew support

At the same time, TX Spell .NET 4.0 will be released with full support for Arabic and Hebrew languages.

TX Text Control X10 Roadmap: Right-to-Left, Arabic and Hebrew support

This will be just one of the great upcoming features of TX Text Control X10 - stay tuned.