Re: Unable to use special characters while typing ...

kamil.luc · ‎Aug 01, 2017

That's just one computer and software to compare with though. With me, whenever I press Alt Gr, the cursor changes to selection/copy cursor, even when typing. As I said, I'm not the only one, see: Unable to type Polish characters (right alt key not working) CS5 AI. How to add accented text character in windows After googling a lot I've found that there's a way of inputting the Polish accented characters on the Polish (Programmers) keyboard setting by pressing Shift + <~> followed by the corresponding character like 'o' for 'ó'. It's quite uncomfortable to do so compared to the usual Alt Gr method. It doesn't work for Irish (GA) keyboard setting either. I wish Adobe employee would make a statement as I've spent a lot of time trying to find the solution and if they just said that there's no solution and there won't be, I would at least stop wasting my time trying to find it. I'd prefer though if I was offered a proper solution or a promise of adding one in the next update (disable Alt Gr when typing - DONE).

kamil.luc · ‎Aug 01, 2017

I assume you have the special German keyboard with special German characters. I have the standard UK layout but sometimes need to type certain language specific characters (irish, polish, german, spanish etc.) and the only way to achieve this is by using the combination of a letter and Alt-Gr. That's when the conflict with the default Illustrator keyboard shortcuts occurs and, unfortunately, AI doesn't have a shortcut override while editing the text (which would solve the problem). The only way to fix that at the moment is the remapping of the AI shortcuts to free up the special character letters. I wish that AI creators kept in mind that a large group of their users doesn't come from US and that they type in different languages, sometimes a few of them at the same time, and you can't own a special keyboard for each of them. I know that I could type my text outside of Illustrator and then paste it in afterwards but that's not a correct way to do it, just workaround.

kamil.luc · ‎Jul 20, 2017

Hi, Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 Windows 10 64bit No plugins. No Wacom No keyboard enhancements. If this were a general issue then nobody would be able to type the EURO symbol on Windows, which is clearly not the case. I've said already that I have no problem with typing the special characters anywhere in Windows except for Illustrator. Specifically in the text editing mode. I can for example type special characters with Alt Gr in the search fields in Illustrator but not anywhere on the artboard. When I press Alt Gr in text editing mode the cursor changes to 'Selection'. So even in text editing mode Illustrator's keyboard shortcuts are activated with Alt Gr - a function that should be disabled for the duration of text editing to allow the use of special characters. Can you type € character in Illustrator using the combination of 'Alt Gr + 4'? Or any other special character for that matter? Do you have a special button on your keyboard for € character? Mine is on the 4-$ button and can only be called by Alt Gr + 4 combination. I've also noticed that formatting of the text using standard keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+I, Ctlr+B and Ctlr-U is not available in Illustrator as opposed to most of the other applications with text editing.

kamil.luc · ‎Jul 20, 2017

Hi, I was trying to type the special characters, specifically € character while using Illustrator. Unfortunately the method that works for every other piece of software I use, is not available in Illustrator. There reason is that Illustrator uses 'Alt Gr' key as replacement for combination 'Alt+Ctrl' even in the text typing mode. That prevents me from using any special characters that require the combination of 'Alt Gr + <letter>'. The examples would be 'Alt Gr + 4' which gives € character in result or 'Alt gr + e' giving 'é'. Please don't suggest for me to pick the special characters from 'Character Map' as it would only make sense if it's just one once in a while. I know I'll need Illustrator for jobs that would require multiple special characters in a sentence. It also doesn't have anything to do with the keyboard/system/software regional and language settings. The issue is specific to Illustrator and I was wondering if there's a way for disabling the key assignment so I could type freely. I've checked the Keyboard Shortcuts settings in Illustrator and there's no option to do that. I'm looking forward to the reply from someone from Adobe as I've seen this issue raised many times in the forums but no solution or official statement was provided (as far as I've seen anyway). Thanks in Advance.

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