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March 4, 2022
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Translating characters error

  • March 4, 2022
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Hi everyone. While I was translating russian texts to german , I had a bug. 

 

I pasted needed text , but some german letters like ö, ä, ü are apppears as you can see in the picture.?

I was using inDesign CC 2018, but then I installed inDesign 2021 . However, not worked. Who faced same problem like this?

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Correct answer Joel Cherney

Well, that font EurofontC is a Cyrillic knock-off of Eurostile. You could replace it with real Eurostile (which most certainly has the u-with-umlaut) and there'd be no visual difference. However, if your client has insisted that you use EurofontC, then a) your client is a fool, and b) you're going to have to use some pretty poor techniques to fake up those umlauts. These techniques are really fragile (composition by a simple change in font size! among dozens of other potential flaws) so maybe you'd be better off doing pretty much anything else:

 

 

However, once you've made this monstrosity, you can copy it to the clipboard and replace all properly encoded u-with-umlauts with "Clipboard Contents, Formatted" and all you'd have to do would be to correct the post-umlaut kerning. I still think that the only way forward is to use a different font, but You Do You (or what your client wants, if that's what you have ot do).

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jmlevy
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Community Expert
March 4, 2022

A pink highlight means that glyphs are missing, but that strange since these glyphs are very common. What font do you use?

Participant
March 4, 2022

Thanks for replying. I am using font that called ' EuroFontC ' . 

 

 

 

But when I changed the selected text font another one , it looks pretty correct.

And Pink colours disappear.

 

 

 

How can I appear the hidden signs not using anather font.

 

 

 

jmlevy
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 4, 2022

But when I changed the selected text font another one , it looks pretty correct.

And Pink colours disappear.

So it means that the ü, ä, ö glyphs do not exist in this font. What do you see in the glyph ânel when you select one of the highlighted character?

 

How can I appear the hidden signs not using anather font.

It will not be possible if the glyphs are missing.