General preferences: Globalization

 

In this Preferences page, you can specify region- and culture-based preferences:

 

 

In Unicode locale extensions, you specify the locale parameters:

 

 

The keywords you can use in this filed are given here and their values are listed here.

 

In Graphical layout direction, you can the layout direction of the LyiaStudio interface:

 

 

The available options include:

OS default - layout of the LyciaStudio elements is determined by your OS settings;

Left to right - LyciaStudio elements start from the left of the window and go to the right (is used for English, German, French and other LTR languages);

Right to left - LyciaStudio elements start from the right of the window and go to the left (is used for Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian, i.e. RTL languages):

 

 

In Enable bidirectional support, you can specify how bidirectional texts are displayed in LyciaStudio:

 

 

if unchecked, LyciaStudio will treat bidirectional texts as any other texts and display them according to your OS settings;

if checked, LyciaStudio will display bidirectional texts according to your choice:

OS default - layout of the text elements is determined by your OS settings;

Left to right - bidirectional text elements start from the left of the window and go to the right;

Contextual - text direction depends on the definite text;

Right to left - bidirectional text elements start from the right of the window and go to the left.

 

When changing these preferences, you have to restart LyciaStudio to apply them.

 

 

 

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4GL preferences: Editors