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After changing the locale of my windows laptop to "Arabic (Saudi Arabia)", the text cursor displayed when typing changed from the usual vertical bar to a bar with a small protrusion near the top, as seen at the right end of the text in this cropped screenshot:
Changing the locale back to "English (UK)" did not revert this change. How can I get the regular "bar" cursor back?
MikeFHay
Posted 2015-04-21T15:55:45.833
Reputation: 2 334
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Turns out this is to indicate the text direction (left-to-right), and was displaying because the Firefox about:config option bidi.browser.ui was set to true (presumably Firefox does this automatically when it detects that you're using certain languages which can be right-to-left, and doesn't switch it back when you're using English). Changing the setting to false returned the cursor to the "vertical bar" shape that I'm used to.
MikeFHay
Posted 2015-04-21T15:55:45.833
Reputation: 2 334
Start>Control Panel>Mouse>Pointers? – DavidPostill – 2015-04-21T17:06:19.0071That small protrusion near the top is a flag indicating keyboard direction (
left-to-rightvs.right-to-left) perhaps. Unfortunately, I do not know how to change it in Windows not having any RTL installed. However, it may be application specific like inEditPad... – JosefZ – 2015-05-28T22:30:22.287Oh jeez, it was application-specific, it only happened in Firefox. How did I miss that? Posting the answer... – MikeFHay – 2015-05-29T13:05:35.587