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title: Right-to-Left (RTL) Language Limitations
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description: 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.
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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. |

#### See Also

- [Supported Languages](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.faq_getstart_what_languages_does.htm&type=5&language=en_US)
- [Right-to-Left (RTL) Language Support](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.faq_getstart_rtl.htm&type=5&language=en_US)
- [Improve the Knowledge Article Search Experience](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=service.knowledge_search_improve.htm&type=5&language=en_US)