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City of5E42
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April 25, 2021
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Copy and Pasting Nepali/Foreign Languages from Word to Indesign

  • April 25, 2021
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Hello,

I am trying to copy and paste translated Nepali text into Indesign. I downloaded Adobe Devanagari and it is working to the extent that there are no longer boxes with Xs in them, but it is not copying and pasting correctly (e.g.): 

Original Text: बर्लिंगटन लीड कार्यक्रम 

Adobe Text: 

I cannot read/speak/write Nepali, but these do not look the same to me. I have updated the Paragraph Style so that it is in the same font as the font itself. I have tried Nimala UI which also seems to be a Nepali-friendly font (but still has the same issue). I have not done anything with Unicode because I don't really have a good understanding. Any advice/quick workarounds appreciated. Thanks!

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Correct answer City of5E42

For anyone else who may see this - I found the answer here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/trouble-copy-pasting-sanskrit-from-word/m-p/10454925#M141540

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Diane Burns
Diane Burns
Inspiring
April 26, 2021

I think for this language you need to have the World-Ready Paragraph Composer applied, not the Adobe Paragraph Composer. Has that been set?

Srishti_Bali
Srishti_Bali
Legend
April 25, 2021

Hi there, 

 

Thanks for reaching out. Please try importing text from word file instead of copy-pasting. Steps are shared here.

 

Regards,

Srishti

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City of5E42Author
Participant
April 25, 2021

Hello,

 

After trying this - there was no change in the result. I tried many different import settings and the characters always came out the same - not how they are in the word doc. 

 

Thanks,

-SD

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City of5E42AuthorCorrect answer
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April 26, 2021

For anyone else who may see this - I found the answer here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/trouble-copy-pasting-sanskrit-from-word/m-p/10454925#M141540

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