Arabic

Math notation in Arabic language changes from country to country.

Your MathType technical administrator can determine a personalized behavior for your installation. You can configure the default Arabic numbers that will be used and whether to mirror math formulas or not.

The configuration for Arabic, language code ar, is to use mirrored formulas and Arabic numbers (1234..)

Please check the table below for details about how MathType handles Arabic math notation for your country.

Country	Example	Code	RTL Formula mirror	Arabic European	Arabic Indic
Algeria		ar_dz	✓	✓
Bahrain		ar_bh	✓	✓
Comoros		ar_km	✓	✓
Dijbouti		ar_dj	✓	✓
Egypt		ar_eg	✓		✓
Eritrea		ar	✓	✓
Iraq		ar_iq	✓	✓
Jordan		ar_jo	✓	✓
Kuwait		ar_kw	✓	✓
Lebanon		ar_lb	✓	✓
Lybia		ar_ly	✓	✓
Mauritania		ar_mr	✓	✓
Morocco		ar_ma	✗	✓
Omar		ar_om	✓	✓
Qatar		ar_qa	✓	✓
Saudi Arabia		ar_sa	✓	✓	✓
Somalia		ar_so	✓	✓
Sudan		ar_sd	✓		✓
Syria		ar_sy	✓	✓
Tunisia		ar_tn	✓	✓
United Arab Emirates		ar_ae	✓	✓
Yemen		ar_ye	✓	✓

MathType detects the language you are using from your browser, your profile on the platform, or the platform settings. Each language has associated a text direction and a set of numerals. If you are curious about MathType defaults, please see configuration page. The sysadmins of your platform can change these defaults. You too can make MathType have different defaults, just by changing the language in your browser.

At any time you can force a text direction or numeral set just using the buttons for it:

By default, characters are considered individual variables. Some standard words have ligatures automatically added. You can manually add Arabic ligatures, using the button:

Additionally, the editor is fully accessible in the Arabic language, and the formulas produced have alternative text in Arabic.