Digits stuck on Arabic mode

Question

Good afternoon everyone.Lately I’ve encountered a pretty substantial problem with my illustrator, where every digit I type is stubbornly turned into arabic digits with arabic right to left reading order and everything else that comes with that.Context: I have spent a couple of years working on projects where Arabic language support was required, hence I used to have the English/Arabic versions of the adobe programmes installed for that time period. Since, having no more need for arabic script use, I’ve reinstalled all the software to the default English language. No problems were encountered in the process, apart from a recent issue with Adobe Illustrator (only).Everything else in settings seems to be fine, the language is set to English UK, nothing in properties indicated arabic script requirements. What is worse, is that I can’t locate the digits settings in illustrator to fix this script mishap. Anybody else encountered this issue?Please help, adobe is rage-baiting me into installing canva. Thanks in advance.

alphastudent · Answer

This sounds like Illustrator is still using Arabic numeral settings somewhere in the document or text preferences.

I would try creating a new document and try typing few numbers there to see if the behavior is the same.

Another thing can help understand the cause is to test entering the text from a different source. Sometimes hidden language settings or formatting can cause unexpected behavior. You can test with an online Arabic keyboard like: https://khatarabic.com/arabic-virtual-keyboard.html

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