How to control text direction (RTL/LTR) in Kanzi Studio?

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Gugugaga

• April 01, 2026 07:22

I am working with Arabic text in Kanzi Studio.

By default, Arabic text is rendered from right to left, which is expected. However, I need to display additional characters (for example, Latin text or numbers) on the right side of the Arabic text.

Currently, when I set the text, the layout does not appear as expected, and the ordering of characters seems incorrect when mixing RTL (Arabic) and LTR text.

I also tried using Unicode bidi control characters (such as U+202B for RTL embedding) to explicitly control the text direction. However, this does not seem to have any effect.

Is there a recommended way in Kanzi Studio to handle mixed RTL/LTR text or to enforce text direction? Are Unicode bidi control characters supported in this case?

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  Jason Stanczyk

  • April 02, 2026 16:59

  I believe the feature you are asking about is called Font Fallback. 
  You can find more information here:
  https://docs.kanzi.com/4.0.0/en/working-with/text/text.html#font-fallback
  
  Fallback Fonts are only available in Kanzi 4.0 and later releases. 

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