Thai language overlapping vowels and accents in Essential Graphics
- February 15, 2024
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Hello, I've been having this issue with premiere pro since I've gotten it. Whenever I use an Essential Graphics template from the free Adobe Stock (and it's not the normal text function thing where you can adjust the spacing and other stuff), Thai language has an issue with overlapping the vowels and accents. It's fine if the word is just two tiers, such as the character and vowel or character and accent. But when it's three tiers with the character, vowel, and accent, then the vowel and accent overlap. All you have to do to replicate this is open up premiere, add an adobe stock essential graphics template that doesn't use the normal text function, and then type into it with a Thai three tier word.
I tried this out with two computers, one is a gaming computer I don't remember the specs on but the other has 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13400 2.50 GHz and OS build of 22621.3155. They're both quite good quality and windows 11.
I tried this with several different fonts such as the standard Thai fonts that come with the computer like Angsana New, Kodchiang UPC, or Lily UPC. Tried it with Google Thai fonts such as Sriracha and Noto Serif Thai. I also several fonts people on the internet made and it didn't work except for one weird looking font. These fonts work fine in Microsoft Word and other programs so it's not the font that has an issue. It also works fine in the normal text function of premiere pro and it works fine in English.
Two pictures I attached show the overlapping of the text in essential graphics template and the ordinary version compared next to it. All three words in the text are a three tier word. The picture with the black and white template is the one where I can choose fonts, which is currently Angsana New for all the text in that screenshot. The blue and white streaks template doesn't let me choose fonts and it's even more wonky.
I have tried it out with several Premiere Pro 23 and 24 versions. Premiere Pro is using GPU acceleration (open CL) and I have tried the others. My Preferences checks the box for Ligatures and Hindu Digits. There is no Southeast Asian box since this is the newer versions and I'm not sure how long ago that was where there was those boxes as the youtube videos always talk about when people run into issues with Thai text (but in the normal text function; I've never seen a video on Thai in the Essential Graphics function). I talked to Adobe Help Center, was on an hour and a half long call with an Adobe Senior later in the week, and we couldn't figure it out so he told me to send a bug report here and wait for it to get fixed in an upcoming update.