In an After Effects text layer, the text does not display as intended

[krisk19889349]

I have an issue with text not displaying properly. I have a sample text of what I want it to be:

"© 2023, Website Marketing, LLC"

But After Effects displays it like this instead:

"Website Marketing, LLC ,2023 ©"

It becomes inverted just for that part with the year and tyhe special character.

I couldn't explain in writing. SO better to show you in screen capture:

https://www.loom.com/share/865c4c8bc5f6494a93b6c514c43755b9

Can anyone help me with this issue please?

[Andrew Yoole]

No solution, sorry, but for the record, I've tried reproducing this issue on a Mac with exactly the same text and fonts, but it works normally for me.  

Some troubleshooting ideas to isolate the problem:

 • Try a different font

• Try copying the text from a different application, rather than Notepad.  

• Apple TextEdit (equivalent to Notepad) has an option to convert rich text to plain text.  Can Notepad do that?

• Try removing the copyright symbol - special characters can sometimes do weird things

[Douglas_Waterfall]

I think you set Right To Left Paragraph Direction by accident.

Douglas Waterfall

After Effects Engineering

[krisk19889349]

I checked the settings in Notepad which aren't many. Tried using MS Word, yielded same results. I tried removing the copyright symbols but it seems the numbers also cause the issue. Will try other route

[krisk19889349]

Hi Douglas, where is that setting in AE?

Though one thing worked based from your suggestion. I right clicked on notepad and found a "Insert Unicode Control Character" Option which had a Left to Right Mark which basically adds a mark that the line should be read Left to Right. Pasted it in AE text layer and worked as intended. So, thank you for the idea.

[DaciaSaenz · Accepted solution]

Hi @krisk19889349 

Please select the text layer and check that the layer is not set to Right to Left. You can do that in the Paragraph or Properties Panels. 

Cheers,