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logant46707104
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February 6, 2023
Question

Text Keeps Moving Any Non-alphanumeric Character to the Right

  • February 6, 2023
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Not sure if this is a bug, or if I'm just not intelligent. Any time I type a line of text using the horizontal typing tool starting with a non-alphanumeric character (ie, things like "&", "[", "<") they end up at the end of the line. as suchm it renders things like "& life ready" as "life ready&" which is infuriating.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I really would love to not have to make a separate text element for every special character that I use..

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Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
February 6, 2023

Check your language and text composer settings in the character panel and preferences. Could be that the glyph substitution stuff is messed up or uses RTL writing.

 

Mylenium 

ShiveringCactus
Community Expert
ShiveringCactusCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 6, 2023

I've never see that issue and just tried to replicate it and it works in the expected way.

Is there any text animator or plugin, script or expression you've got going on that might explain that?

It feels like something "javascript-y" might be separating the characters and then joining them back up, but special characters are breaking it.

One option, are you using a text box?  Could the & be on a new line, but there's no line spacing?

 

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    logant46707104Author
    Participant
    February 6, 2023

    It is a clean install of 23.1. I don't have any plugins installed, nor am I using any expressions. 
    The steps I take to reproduce this are as follows:

     

    • open AE
    • create new composition, 1920x1080 59.94fps
    • select horizontal text typing tool
    • type any single line of text beginning with a special character, the first character types correctly but then all additional characters appear to the left of the special character.

     

    I'm also now noticing that special characters at the end of the line appear at the beginning as well, ie, "Life Ready &" gets rendered as "& Life Ready". Changing any of the paragraph alignment settings doesn't have any effect nor does changing the font face or size.

    Mildly infuriating that it behaves this way, but at least it saves me from needing a separate text element for the special characters,
        

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