Changing lowercase to uppercase in greek with accent

[mariaf37113046]

When changing letters from lowercase to uppercase in greek remains the accent when you are panctuating. In previous version when you were changing, the accent was disappearing. Now you have to change every single letter

[Anubhav M]

Hello @mariaf37113046,

I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble using Illustrator. Would you mind sharing more details, like the OS/Illustrator version and a screen recording of your entire workflow and the problem, so I can better assist you?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav

[mariaf37113046]

Illustrator 29.0.1

Here in Greece we use accent in our words when we are typing. In other
versions when you were changing a word with accent from lowercase to
uppercase the accent was "disappearing".

See below the screenshots

Thank you so much for responding

[mariaf37113046]

Here in Greece we use accent in our words when we are typing. In other versions when you were changing a word with accent from lowercase to uppercase the accent was "disappearing".

See below the screenshots

Thank you so much for responding

[Kurt Gold]

What previous version do you mean?

In Illustrator 28.7.1 the result is the same as shown in your screenshot from Illustrator 29.0.1

I'm certainly not an expert when it comes to greek typography, but if the font in question has an accented uppercase version of the accented lowercase character, I'd say it is rather logical to convert it to an accented uppercase character instead of an uppercase character without the accent.

[mariaf37113046]

Before I update to 2025 i was working illustrator 2024. I never had a
problem before

[Kurt Gold]

Does that mean that it worked as desired by you in Illustrator 28.7.1?

If so, what font were you using there?

[mariaf37113046]

Yes it worked at any greek font

[mariaf37113046]

But I never had this issue before.  When converting to one another the accent was not there. The issue is now

[mariaf37113046]

And now all the old work that I have done when I'm opening previous files are like this 

[Kurt Gold]

Do you still have access to Illustrator 28.7.1 or any older version? If so, please try again and report your findings.

And as already mentioned, please tell what fonts you were actually using.

[mariaf37113046]

Unfortunately no I don't. This particular font tha t I sent you before and I can type greek is Cera pro

[Kurt Gold]

Thank you. Unfortunately, I don't have Cera Pro, but I tested it with some other fonts in some older versions of Illustrator. In any case it turned out that the behaviour did not change. Accented lowercase characters are converted to accented uppercase characters in any greek word I tried.

Perhaps someone else can confirm your complaint. I cannot.

[Petros224823533jic]

Hi! so the problem is, that in Greek when we are writing in CAPITALS, there arent supposed to be any accents. We only use accents on lowercase letters. And in previous illustrator versions this was not an issue! Now with the 29 version onwards, if i copy a text / sentence in illustrator that has accents, and turn it CAPITALS in illustrator, then I get accents on the upper case lettters. which is annoying to have to manually delete all accents. Also when i open previous files from previous years, I now get accents on the capital letters because when i pasted them i did not remove accents, I simply changed to ALL CAPS and illustrator was automatically removing accents. now that is not the case.. 

I hope this helps clarify things! 

[Brad @ Roaring Mouse]

Make sure the language for the text is correctly set to Greek.

[Freddeus]

I'm posting to confirm findings.

First of all I have to mention (for non Greek speaking participants ) that uppercase Greek words do NOT take an accent in most cases, in contrast with lowercase words that DO always take an accent.

The problem made its appearence on the 2025 update of the suite. Before that all was working as intended. When you had a puncuated lowercase word and you wanted to make it uppercase, you pressed "all caps" and the punctuation disappeared.

Now for Illustrator, the accents remain when using the "all caps" option in any lowercase greek text. If the language box is changed to Greek, then only the Eta remains puncuated. This happens with all fonts that have support the Greek language.

Photoshop doesnt work at all, uppercase letters still keep their accent.

Indesign is cool. Uppercase letters do NOT keep their accent.

The above findings are being observed in new files, freshly created in 2025 versions. When opening a file that was created in a previous version and had capitalisation somewhere inside, you find the uppercase words puncuated.

[Anshul_Saini]

Hi @mariaf37113046 @Freddeus,

Thank you for sharing the detailed observations. It seems like the behavior you’re describing aligns with a known issue that some users have reported regarding accents in Greek uppercase letters. Could you please check the following UserVoice link to confirm if this is the same issue?

Accents disappear for capital Greek letters

If it matches your issue, please add your feedback there or upvote the report to bring more attention to the matter. Meanwhile, I will also check with the product team to understand this behavior.

Let me know if you have any additional details or questions!

Best regards,

Anshul Saini

[Freddeus]

Hello @Anshul_Saini,

Thank you for your reply!

At the link you provided, the bug mentioned is NOT a bug. It works as it should. Uppercase Greek SHOULD NOT have accents.

Also the post is from 2020. We are talking about the current live versions.