Bidirectional Class - Right To Left Isolate

Unicode Version 18.0

Right To Left Isolate is a bidirectional control character that signals the start of an embedded text segment meant to be rendered from right to left, while preventing its surrounding text’s direction from affecting the content inside. It acts like a virtual boundary, ensuring that any punctuation or neutral characters within the isolated span are resolved according to the right-to-left base direction, regardless of the outer paragraph’s direction. This isolation also stops the embedded text’s direction from influencing the layout of adjacent text, making it especially useful for mixing languages like Arabic or Hebrew with left-to-right scripts in complex digital documents. It is paired with a matching end-of-isolate marker to close the segment.

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