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Yeshiva99041587
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December 25, 2019
Question

mail merge in hebrew

  • December 25, 2019
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I'm trying to make a male merge with hebrew characters but it gives me that boxes with a cross in it

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LaubenderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 19, 2020

Hi shayeh84923218,

best make a sample document of your data merge template plus your data source file available through Dropbox or a similar service. Post the download link here. I think, everything else is rather fruitless…

 

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

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shayeh84923218
Participant
May 19, 2020

Changing the font didn't help. and converting it to UTF16 just messed up my document. Any advice?

Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
December 25, 2019

What is the underlying font in the document you are merging into? If the font doesn't have Hebrew glyphs defined, you will likely get the .notdef character, most often the box with an X in it. See what happens if you change the underlying font to Adobe Hebrew (or if on Windows, Arial, Times New Roman, etc.).

 

              - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
MW Design
MW Design
Inspiring
December 25, 2019

As well as Dov's advice, I do believe that for Hebrew, UTF-16 format is required.

 

And for myself, I avoid comma delimited and use tab delimited UTF-16 format unless the data is simple Western scripts, then I use UTF-8 tab delimited format. 

 

Mike 

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