This Natural profile and session parameter determines whether base characters in their basic forms (unshaped) are converted to their shaped forms before they are stored.

Character shaping is required to correctly represent characters of a bidirectional language (such as Arabic), for example, when using a browser or editing text with the NaturalONE source editor.

Possible settings	ON	Unshaped characters are converted to their shaped forms; shaped characters are not converted.
	OFF	Unshaped characters are not converted to their shaped forms; shaped characters are converted to their unshaped forms.
Default setting	OFF
Dynamic specification	yes
Specification within session	yes

See also Bidirectional Language Support in the Unicode and Code Page Support documentation.