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Special Character Support in Text Mode

If bidirectional text, such as Arabic or Hebrew languages, certain Asian languages (such as Devanagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhala, Thai, Khmer), or other special characters (such as combining characters) are detected in a document, Oxygen XML Developer displays a Special Characters Detected dialog box that prompts you to Enable or Disable support for these special characters (you can also enable or disable the support for special characters in the Open preferences page.

Enabled
If you choose to enable support for special characters and as long as you chose a font that supports the particular special characters, this means that the glyphs will be rendered properly in Text mode and the cursor navigation mechanism will recognize them as they are shown.
Example: The Ậ glyph could be inserted using a consecutive combination of two characters (U+00C2 followed by U+0323). With the special characters support enabled and the SansSerif font chosen, that glyph will be rendered properly (a capital letter A with a circumflex above it and a dot below) and you can navigate through the glyph in one step (pressing the right/left arrow key once).
Restriction: When support for special characters is enabled, the folding support is not available.
Disabled
If you choose to disable support for special characters, it may affect text rendering, cursor navigation, and text management operations. However, this is helpful if you need to open very large documents since disabling the bidirectional editing support can enhance performance.
Example: The Ậ glyph could be inserted using a consecutive combination of two characters (U+00C2 followed by U+0323). With the special characters support disabled, that glyph may or may not be rendered properly and when navigating through the glyph, it would take two steps (pressing the right/left arrow key twice).
Restriction: Bidirectional content in the Text mode cannot be rendered using Bold or Italic.