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Incorrect text character being displayed

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
November 29, 2018
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I am seeing a strange behavior that I can't explain. When typing text, if I type an apostrophe (') a greater than sign (>) appears instead. If I type (>), the screen displays (>), just like it should. It does this for every font. If I go to Type==>Panels==>Glyphs and double-click on ('), I get the same behavior.

Two things of note:

1. I have PS running on two machines and this occurs on only one of them, so I'm ruling out a software bug in PS.

2. If I do the same test in Word or Excel, the problem does not exist.

I'm guessing there is some sort of character mapping algorithm that is messed up, but I can't find a reference to such a function.

Ideas (short of uninstall/re-install)?

Oh, BTW, my environment is: latest version of PS CC running on Win10 Pro.

--Ernie

Correct answer Jimmy Papas

In Photoshop, go to: Preferences > Type, and untick “Use Smart Quotes”.

Jimmy PapasCorrect answer

Inspiring

In Photoshop, go to: Preferences > Type, and untick “Use Smart Quotes”.

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Shiraz_vfx

Participant

I found another soluction.

open paragraph panel (Alt + Ctrl + T), go to options and select "Roman Hanging Punctuation"

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Mathew5FCB

Participant

I've been having the exact same problem - seemed to come out of nowhere, and I'm on a deadline!!!

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rshahid93

Participant

Has been answered above

I've been having the exact same problem - seemed to come out of nowhere, and I'm on a deadline!!!

By @Mathew5FCB

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Digital Dashh

Participant

Hi,

I'm wondering if you ever had this problem resolved. I'm having the same issue right now and can't seem to figure out what went wrong or how to fix it.

HSDA

Participating Frequently

In Edit>Prefrences>type disable smart Quotes.
I had the same problem and this solved for me.

Jimmy Papas

Inspiring

Worked for me thanks.

D Fosse

Community Expert

Check your keyboard input language settings. Sometimes it changes for no apparent reason, and then you may get some incorrect characters like you describe. Happens to me occasionally, and then a quick glance at the taskbar reveals the problem.

Unless you have an all-English setup with no other language or region involved.

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

So many keyboards. So many different character maps. This page has made me feel arrogant for assuming that my 'US' layout was a sort of world standard, but the 'greater than', and 'lesser than' characters are on the other side of the keyboard on about half of these.

International Keyboards Mapping

D Fosse

Community Expert

Yeah. Some of the standard PS shortcuts don't work at all here, like the square brackets.

And sometimes the other shortcuts don't take at all in Photoshop, just no reaction. Funnily enough, there's one that always works, and that's ctrl+alt+shift+K, which brings up the keyboard shortcut dialog. Dismiss that with Enter, and all the other shortcuts come back to life.

I can't explain this, but I suspect that too is related to using a Norwegian keyboard with English Photoshop and English Windows. It must be, since I have it in two machines, but no one else seems to have this problem.

gener7

Community Expert

Reset Type Tool First select the Type Tool and right-click on its icon at the top.

and Reset Character Panel

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