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**Etal**

ne wrote:

Ralph Fox wrote:

wrote:

Sometimes text moves to the right side of a field.

My comment are at the bottom.

Running XP SP3, Eudora 7.1.0.9, and Agent 1.93.

I have Hebrew, Arabic, and Russian alphabets enabled, the first two you
know are written from right to left, but in an effort to stop this, I
removed key sequences that were usable to change to those alphabets.
(So now I don't know how to change to the right alphabet even when I
want to.) (In Text Services and Input Languages, which comes from
Regional and Language options, which comes from the Control Panel)

This occurs mostly or entirely in two programs, i) ForteAgent and only
in the composition window, at the top, in the Newsgroups field or the
Subject field. And ii) in Eudora, where all of the text in
the body will sometimes become right justified, line by line, that is,
not changing line breaks.

I must have touched certain keys but I can't find the keys to get the
text back to the left.

Does anyone know what the problem is? Or how I stop it from happening
and how I reverse it when it does happen?

For XP, there are key settings in the Control Panel at
Control Panel Region and Language Options Languages Details Key Settings

Right. The Key Settings are all set to None.

OTOH for Agent 1.93 I would normally expect this behaviour to be

It might be a coincidence that the whole body of an email gets
right-justified in Eudora, maybe once every 2 or 3 months.

I'm reading this thread from 'm.p.windowsxp.general' and don't
see any explanation for the behavior you (the OP) describe.

I sometimes experience this behavior in at least one program,
Notepad, the basic text-editor distributed with all copies of
WinXP, but i think it's occurred for me in other programs as well.

I have no version of Agent or Eudora installed to try out on, but
my reason for posting is i'm thinking that there is an underlying
Windows API that the three programs mentioned above and others
can make use of.

Open Notepad [|Agent|Eudora] type in some text and then using the
keyboard, first hold down [Ctrl] and then press [RShift].
If the text now turned right-justified, to get left-justified
text back use [Ctrl] and then press [LShift]. In Notepad on can
use the context-menu in text-area to manage justification
sidedness, but it doesn't show us the key-combos to use.

For me, these are key-combos that i press inadvertently from time
to time, and it took me a while to figure out what it was i had
done to cause the behavior change. I don't know if there is an
option somewhere to turn this behavior on off off, but i think it
would be desirable.

A probable prerequisite might be that the WinXP optional
component "Install files for complex scripting and right-to-left-
languages" must be installed ... found under "Cpl : Regional and
Language Options : Languages : Supplemental language support"

HTH

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