Cursor movement

This page explains how cursor movement behaves in the input fields when handling bidirectional (BIDI) text.

Logical Cursor Movement

Unity currently follows a Logical Cursor Movement approach. This means the cursor moves through BIDI text based on the direction of the segment of text. For example, using the left arrow key in a sentence with Arabic and English text, it moves right-to-left through Arabic, then jumps at the leftmost character in the English segment and continues left-to-right until it reaches the end of the segment.

Visual Cursor Movement

Some applications follow a Visual Cursor Movement approach. This means the cursor moves to the next visual character regardless of the direction of the text, which can sometimes feel more intuitive for users.

Additional resources

• Set language direction