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Funny experiment

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OK - here is an surprising experiment. Do you know what this does?
1) Open some UI that contains an edit box (like notepad, or even the Start\Run... dialog)
2) Type something
3) Press Ctrl + Right Shift
4) Type something
5) Press Ctrl + Left Shift
etc...

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  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2005
    Nothing peculiar happens. All I see is the text I typed.
  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2005
    Great! Funny!
  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2005
    Funny. But If I want the text becoming center-aligned, what could I do?
  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2005
    I have a feeling it's because you've got complex script support turned on and Ctrl+Right Shift is the shortcut for "right-to-left reading" and Ctrl+Left Shift is the shortcut for "left-to-right reading".

    It won't work if you don't have complex script support enabled.
  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2005
    Hey

    This happens because for Some Languages in the world the writing starts from Right side of the Page to the Left side. e.g. Arabic

  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2005
    if you have installed Asian language support like arabic it will happen.
  • Anonymous
    December 13, 2005
    Probably not related to this is an exceedingly stupid bug of the standard windows EDIT control that has been there for ages. If you press Ctrl+Backspace, you get some kind of bogus character instead of deleting the last word like every sensible editor and word processor does.

    Can you tell the USER.EXE guys that we want this fixed? :)
  • Anonymous
    December 14, 2005
    This is because you installed support for "complex script and right-to-left languages". Some lanaguages like Arabic and Hebrew are written right to left, and this changes the alignment and reading order. It comes very naturally for people here in Israel...

    Anonymous: Ctrl-Backspace deletes the last word here (in Start->Run...).

    Khuzema: Actually, it's "complex script and right-to-left languages". "East Asian languages" is a different set. I should know - I have (and use) both!
  • Anonymous
    December 15, 2005
    Sounds vaguely familiar....

    http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/489013.aspx

    (A case where it won't work anymore even if you want it too?)

    :-)
  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2008
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