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avocadoking
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January 9, 2025
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Thai Diacritic Alignment

  • January 9, 2025
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I'm a designer in Japan with native English and I work on multilingual translations sometimes with other translators. I'm responsible for compiling all the files. Right now I'm having a terrible time with the Thai file, as the diacritics aren't aligning properly and I don't know why. 

I have the text box language set to Thai and "Show East-Indian Preferences" is ticked in Preferences > Type. 

 

I'm not sure what else to do from here. I already had to send one document where I painstakingly edited spacing character by character. Surely there's  a better way! 

All Thai fonts produce the same results, but I'm using Browallia New. 

My Illustrator is up to date, I'm running Windows 11. Any help is appreciated. 

 

"World ready" or whatever isn't something I've been able to find thus far.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

 

 

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Anubhav M
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Anubhav MCommunity Manager
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January 9, 2025

Hello @avocadoking,

Thanks for reaching out. Would you mind checking if the Thai font supports OpenType layout features for better diacritic positioning and try enabling these features in the Character panel to see if it helps?

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Additionally, try using a more widely used Thai font that may better support diacritic alignment. For minor adjustments, you can use the Baseline Shift option in the Character panel to tweak diacritics manually and share your observations.

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Looking forward to hearing from you.
 
Anubhav
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avocadokingAuthor
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January 10, 2025

Thanks so much for replying. I enabled OpenType and admittedly an immediately out of my wheelhouse on this one. I used the baseline shift in another document for a few characters here and there but the entire copy is messed up in this case. As mentioned, I tried with every thai font including the defaults and these problem persist. 

After confirming OpenType exists and opening the panel, what should my next step be?

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avocadokingAuthor
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January 10, 2025

*am immediately out of my wheelhouse (typo)

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