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Changing lowercase to uppercase in greek with accent

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November 13, 2024
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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

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Anshul_Saini

Community Manager

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

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Freddeus

Participant

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.

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Freddeus

Participant

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.

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

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

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mariaf37113046Author

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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

Community Expert

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.

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mariaf37113046Author

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

Anubhav M

Community Manager

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

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mariaf37113046Author

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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

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