RTL/Middle Eastern Line Composer not working properly for punctuation

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On Illustrator 2025 (29.0), I have selected Show Indic Options, Arabic text, and Middle Eastern Line Single-Line Composer. However, while the text displays normally, sentences don't start where they should, and the punctuation (full stops/commas) always end up on the right of the text (incorrectly). I am unable to fix this, and installing Illustrator 2024 did not help either.

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Admired_customer7b49

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hi! were you able to solve this problem? i’m experiencing the same issue with illustrator 2026. :)

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Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @Admired_customer7b49,

Sorry you're running into the same RTL/punctuation issue. Could you please try the suggestions shared in these similar Illustrator Community threads?

https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/right-to-left-text-arabic-812528

https://community.adobe.com/questions-652/rtl-text-option-missing-in-arabic-illustrator-version-28-6-on-macos-811634

Please try the suggested steps and let us know whether they resolve the issue.

Thanks,
Abhishek

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Monika Gause

Community Expert

Perhaps you need to install the Arabic version.

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elegant_appreciator5FE4Author

Participant

You mean the English one with Arabic support? That's the one I have

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Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello @elegant_appreciator5FE4,

I am sorry to hear about your experience. Would you mind sharing a screen recording of your exact workflow and the settings used in Illustrator along with the problem, so I can check this with the team?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav

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