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June 11, 2009
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  • June 11, 2009
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InDesign CS4 | English
I want to convert my English leaflet into Chinese. So I started to replace English text with Chinese, but that doesn't work as the characters don't show up. Can someone tell me how to change my page settings to UTF-8 so that I can add my Chinese text? Thanks.

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    Correct answer Jongware

    Change your font to one that contains Chinese characters.

    The fonts with special character support are in alphabetically order inbetween the 'regular' fonts; they are grouped at the bottom of the font list, separated by lines. (And it suddenly occurs to me a label would've been nice -- you will have to try each one to see if it supports the characters you need.)

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    Diane Burns
    Diane Burns
    Inspiring
    June 11, 2009

    Here is the beginning of the original post on CJK handling in InDesign.

    (Somehow my old account didn't come over, even though I followed directions for making it transfer, sorry it's been difficult to find.)

    Too bad we don't have sticky posts anymore.

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/323246?tstart=0

    Regards,

    --Diane Burns

    Kenneth C. Benson
    Kenneth C. Benson
    Inspiring
    June 11, 2009

    (Somehow my old account didn't come over, even though I followed directions for making it transfer, sorry it's been difficult to find.)

    I missed the directions for making my old account transfer. I started the new forum with a new account, and my several thousand old posts are now really hard to find. Where are the directions for making your old account transfer?

    Ken

    Peter Spier
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    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 11, 2009

    Too late now, Ken. Sorry.

    Jongware
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    JongwareCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    June 11, 2009

    Change your font to one that contains Chinese characters.

    The fonts with special character support are in alphabetically order inbetween the 'regular' fonts; they are grouped at the bottom of the font list, separated by lines. (And it suddenly occurs to me a label would've been nice -- you will have to try each one to see if it supports the characters you need.)

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    Anonymous
    June 11, 2009

    Finally, that is exact what I did. Had an hour contact with the Adobe Helpdesk (NL), but they really had no clue where they were talking about.

    At the end of the call they told me that inDesign is a very critical application that is not capable of designing in Chinese unless I would re-install the app with a Japanese/Chinese setup. How low can one go... Thanks for sharing.

      Joel Cherney
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      Joel CherneyCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 11, 2009
      At the end of the call they told me that inDesign is a very critical application that is not capable of designing in Chinese unless I would re-install the app with a Japanese/Chinese setup.

      That is pure garbage.

      There are some typesetting tools that aren't available without some template & style tricks (wow, I wish that thread was still stickied), but I typeset Chinese in InDesign on a regular basis. Not to mention Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Lao, Burmese, Amharic...

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