Dear Eric, Here are all my details: Mac Pro (Late 2013) Software OS X 10.14.6 (18G2022) Processor 3.5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 Memory 32 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 ECC Adobe Software version: 2020 I'm sorry but your answer is incorrect and misleading. When you use the Middle Eastern version, you don't need to apply what you suggested. It works perfectly with Hebrew, and used to work perfectly in Arabic. I'm an expert in this field, I use to beta testing to the first company who implement the Hebrew and the Arabic so I really no it very well. Unfortunately Adobe has topped caring about it, and in every new version another feature is stop working. I have reported it many times to the Pre-Release programme and left as no one have answered me and fixed it. Now I'm reporting it here. Everything I explained and all definitions I mentioned above are correct and there is a problem in this version (2020). Hebrew and Arabic are both Right to Left Languages. They need a special application (Middle Eastern Version) in which special definitions exist in-contrary to the US version. The definitions I mentioned above are correct. The behaviour in Arabic is not and it should be. All Letters have a a built in direction. Roman letters - Left to right, Digits - Left to Right, Hebrew and Arabic Letters are typed from Right to Left. Neutral character like period, comma, slash, space etc., do not have a build in direction and get the direction according to what surrounds them. All these definitions are build in and has nothing to do with InDesign which is only respecting it. InDesign does supply the option to change it in cases the neutral characters are misbehaving according to Right to Left. Whenever using Arabic or Hebrew, we get a mixed behaviour between Letters (Right to Left) and Digits (Left to Right). Therefore the Character direction should be set to "Default" state which means it takes the build in direction of the letters and the digits. In this case, or in this version (2020), there is bug that prevent this behaviour from happening when selecting Arabic language. If I'll keep the language on English USA, Hebrew etc, you will see the there is no problem. You don't expect us to outline text for a 400 reading book pages, right? 🙂 No one will use InDesign if it couldn't treat it correctly. As it did since its 2nd version, there is no reason that it will stop doing so now. Screenshot attached All the best, Shlomit
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