Non-Latin alphabets in text objects

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March 26, 2026
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I have version 7, which does not accept non-Roman text in text boxes (Yiddish characters in particular show up as blank).

Is there a later version that does support this?

Thanks.

Correct answer barryg18520665

Sort of a step forward. Trying your method did actually put Y letters in the text box. So I tried just typing with the Y keyboard and lo and behold, Y characters. I daresay I hadn’t selected an appropriate font, silly me.

But the text box does a truly lousy job rendering the Y characters. It doesn’t understand right-to-left and it separates the character from any diacritical marks (e.g. אָ becomes א and the little t-thingee separate.

So the question becomes is there a version of Photoshop that is fully functional with non-Roman alphabets?

Glenn 8675309

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Sure hope you aren’t running windows 7.

barryg18520665Author

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Windows 10, but I don’t understand the rest of your reply.

Phinny

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See if https://altcodeunicode.com/alt-codes-hebrew-alphabet-letters/ helps.

barryg18520665Author

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Thanks but not really. I know there are Unicode chars for the entire Hebrew/Yiddish alphabet, but that doesn’t let me type Y in a Photoshop text box, unless a later (subscription?) version supports such.

Phinny

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This cut & paste comes from Copilot:

Method 1 — Copy/paste from Character Map
Windows’ Character Map includes all Hebrew/Yiddish characters.
This method is confirmed to work in Photoshop via Character Map copy/paste.
1. Open Character Map (type it in Start).
2. Choose a font that supports Hebrew (e.g., Tahoma).
3. Select the characters you want (including װ ױ ײ).
4. Click Copy.
5. Paste into your Photoshop Elements 7 text box.

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