Japanese text input is displayed at the top-left corner unless “Apply Inline Input to Non-Latin Text” is enabled

I am experiencing a serious Japanese text input issue in Adobe Illustrator on Windows.

When I use the Type Tool and click on a specific location, the text cursor appears correctly at the location where I clicked. However, when I start typing Japanese text, the characters are displayed at the top-left corner of the document instead of at the cursor position.

The behavior is extremely disruptive because I have to press Enter before the text suddenly appears at the correct location.

Interestingly, typing Latin characters such as “abc” works correctly. The problem occurs specifically with Japanese text input.

I eventually discovered that enabling Preferences > Type > “Apply Inline Input to Non-Latin Text” fixes the problem.

This means that a basic Japanese text input setting can become disabled and cause Japanese text to appear in a completely incorrect location, without any obvious indication of what is wrong.

I had already:

• Restarted Illustrator

• Restarted my computer

• Disabled GPU Performance

• Tested Japanese and Latin text input separately

• Reset Illustrator preferences

The preference reset also destroyed my customized workspace/layout, costing me additional time, yet it did not address the underlying problem.

I am a professional designer and was working on a client project when this happened. Because text appeared to be entered in the wrong location, every text edit became unnecessarily time-consuming and significantly slowed down my work.

Please investigate why “Apply Inline Input to Non-Latin Text” can become disabled or why Illustrator does not provide a clear indication when this setting is required for Japanese input.

Japanese is not an obscure or optional language for a professional design application. Reliable Japanese text input should work correctly by default.

This issue caused substantial disruption to my workflow and made me waste a significant amount of time troubleshooting what appeared to be a serious application malfunction.

Please fix this behavior and ensure that Japanese users paying dollars and dollars every months (like me!!!) do not encounter this problem unexpectedly.

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