Direction of Text in Forms Changed Strangely?

Dear All
I develop an application by default and its Direction was from LEFT to RIGHT in all data fields- as Engish writing default direction.
After 2 months successful implemention and running on a PC, the direction of Text writing into all fields and in all forms changes strangely and it now take input from RIGHT TO LEFT?
Can anyone help me to resolve this problem? where the things gone wrong? what i have to do now? what to modify?
I do have more than 20 Forms and so hundreds fields there?
Lookng forward ur urgent help.

This is going to sound like a really obvious question but what have you changed since it started to do this?
My guess would be some sort of NLS setting in Forms or in the O/S - does this happen to any other applications? What about a brand new Form; do you get the same. If you are running on the web does it change if you use a different browser?
REgards
Grant ROnald
Forms Product Management
http://www.groundside.com/blog/content/GrantRonald/

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