When typing out text with a percentage sign (i.e. 25%), the text automatically formats to having the percentage sign ahead of the text.

Working on an animation project and I ran into an issue with a piece of text where the percentage was supposed to be listed. The text read “...greater than or equal to %25 of...” and I flagged it as a typo. However, when I tried to fix it, no matter what I did or where I copied the text from, my “25%” formatted to “%25”. Was working in v26, but the issue carried over when I downgraded to v25 as well.

Haven’t had this issue with any other project. I just tested it in another recent project (also v25) and was able to type the percentages okay, so not sure if this is project specific, v26 specific, or user/formatting error. Saw another couple posts on the Photoshop forums with the same issue, but no real fix.

Two things I noticed/did to resolve the issue.

1. For some reason, Hindi digits was checked. I got my project file from another editor, so maybe they had it enabled. Unchecked that box. It may help others, although I saw no change.
2. I selected all my text, went to the Text settings on the side (the three/four lines) and selected “Reset Character”. This reverted the text back to the default font/size/etc, but also changed the percentage back to its usual placement. Had no problems after that when switching back to the font used in the video.

Note that if you have a block of text, I recommend resetting the whole block so you don’t run into issues with the % sign elsewhere.

Anyways, wanted to share in case others are running into this issue. If this doesn’t fit in the “Report a bug” category, let me know where this sort of thing should be posted.