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barryg18520665
Inspiring
March 26, 2026
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Non-Latin alphabets in text objects

  • 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?

    2 replies

    Glenn 8675309
    Legend
    March 27, 2026

    יא, phtoshop eleents 2026 שטיצט יידיש

    Sure hope you aren’t running windows 7.

    barryg18520665
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2026

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

    Phinny
    Legend
    March 27, 2026
    barryg18520665
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2026

    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
    Legend
    March 27, 2026

    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.