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Chapter 4 Editing and Formatting Text
Some languages require additional tools. Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi, for example, need
bidirectional support, because they are input and read from right to left. Ideographic languages
need the Microsoft Input Method Editor to make it possible to type “text” (ideograms) at
all. (Ideograms, the cornerstone of several written Asian languages, are symbols more related
to ideas or things rather than a spoken sound. Ideographic languages are notoriously diffi-
cult to input into a computer because they typically contain thousands of “characters.”) For
more details, consult the online Help topic “About Multilingual Features ...