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Problem in quotation marks in Arabic

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
May 19, 2025
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I am working on a book where I use these quotation marks for opening and closing quotations.

If the same line has one quote only it works perectly, but if the same line has two words with the quotations they the ones on the edges looks fine, but the ones in the center are flipped (see the attached screenshot). I tired copy and paste, I also tried to insert them as Glphs but the same result.

By the way if I opened the same book in older InDesign like 2022 it opens correctly, while on InDesgin 2024 and 2025 they bahave like this.

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Are you using the ME version of InDesign?

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/kb/access-install-hebrew-arabic-indesign-illustrator-CC.html

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Yes I use ME version

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Sorry meant to also ask have you used the World Ready Paragraph Composer?
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/world-ready-composer-in-styles/td-p/12825060

Can you use a non-breaking characters around the quotation by placing a Right-to-Left Mark (RLM) character before and after your quotation marks.

You can insert this from the Glyphs panel or with the shortcut:

On Windows: Alt+0612

On Mac: Use the Character Viewer to find and insert it

There's a chart here for CS4 special characters

https://indiscripts.com/blog/public/data/idcs4-special-characters/en_InDesignCS4SpecialChars.pdf