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Right-to-Left (RTL) Language Limitations
For right-to-left language users, search supports Hebrew and Arabic as end-user languages and Urdu as a platform language. For these languages, Salesforce provides limited support for global search and lookup search features in Lightning Experience.
| Search Feature | Arabic | Hebrew | Urdu | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boolean and phrase operators | Yes | Yes | Yes | Only English operators supported. |
| Exact match | Yes | Yes | Yes | For Arabic and Urdu, search is limited to exact match. |
| Proximity of terms | No | Yes | No | The structure of the Hebrew language can make proximity of terms less effective. |
| Salesforce mobile app, or any mobile app or browser | No | No | No | |
| Salesforce Knowledge search | Yes | Yes | Yes | Limitations for global search also apply to Knowledge search. Knowledge advanced filters don’t support RTL languages. |
| Lemmatization | No | Yes | No | |
| Stemming | No | Yes | No | |
| Synonym groups | No | Yes | No | Type-ahead results aren’t supported with synonym groups. |
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