Support for left-to-right (including arabic) spooled files

Some EBCDIC codepages are of the type, where the text is written from left to right. That includes e.g. codepage 420 Arabic.

In order to fully support spooled files with such codepages in the designer you will need to enable a special setting on the template element in the designer.

You can enable support for the left-to-right spooled files with this option on the template element:

In the current version (4.0.1) this option has a side effect on the text in variables, so you should avoid using text in variables in the template when this option is enabled.

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