SHAPED - Control of Character Shaping

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# SHAPED - Control of Character Shaping

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 |

Note
If you are using Natural Version 9.1 or higher and you use Mainframe Editors to input data, you must set `SHAPED=ON`. If you use only NaturalOne and haven't used Mainframe Editors to input data, you must set `SHAPED=OFF`. Alternatively, you can skip setting `SHAPED` as its default value is `OFF`.

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