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Stu Janis
Stu Janis
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August 15, 2018
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Can't type in Hebrew

  • August 15, 2018
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I'm trying to type Hebrew letters in InDesign. When I select the Adobe Hebrew font, I still get regular (English) letters. I suspect this isn't specifically an Adobe problem, since I run into the same thing in Word, Pages, or pretty much every application where I try to type. What am I missing? I vaguely remember a "clean-up" app asking if I wanted to get rid of foreign language support - if that's the problem, how do I get it back? The document I'm working on will have both English and Hebrew.

Interestingly, someone sent me a Word document with Hebrew. When I open it, I see Hebrew, but when I highlight the text, it purports to be Times New Roman!

iMac with system 10.13.6

InDesign CC 13.1

Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer selected

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Correct answer TᴀW

If you want to type in Hebrew, install a Hebrew keyboard (in Windows, Control Panel > Keyboard and Languages). (And Times New Roman is a huge font that supports many languages including Hebrew, so it makes sense that you might see some Hebrew in that Word doc set in TNR).

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August 15, 2018

If you want to type in Hebrew, install a Hebrew keyboard (in Windows, Control Panel > Keyboard and Languages). (And Times New Roman is a huge font that supports many languages including Hebrew, so it makes sense that you might see some Hebrew in that Word doc set in TNR).

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Stu Janis
Stu JanisAuthor
Inspiring
August 15, 2018

Close enough that it got me the rest of the way. I'm using a Mac and I had already gone to System Preferences and had added a Hebrew keyboard. What I hadn't noticed is the icon on the right side of the menu bar that had an American flag. When I switched it to Hebrew with the icon Alef, it worked.

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August 15, 2018

Right, I wasn't sure if you were Mac or Windows, but AWTEW.

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