How to render hyperlink with different languages in PDF exported from InDesign?

[Shravan RM]

I am facing issue in hyperlink while exporting from InDesign to PDF if URL contains Arabic font 
as given in below example

e.g. https://icoia.org/news/f/گزارش-کانون-بین-المللی-دانشگاهیان-ایرانی-از-وضعیت-سرکوب-دانشجویان

While exporting to PDF the hyperlink is rendered as unicode characters instead of Arabic characters.

Could someone help me how to render the hyperlink with Arabic characters in PDF?

[Steve Werner]

What language version of InDesign are you using? What Composer (e.g., Adobe Paragraph Composer, Adobe World Ready Paragraph Composer) are you using?

[Shravan RM]

Hi Steve,

I am using InDesign CS6 with Adobe Paragraph Composer.

[Steve Werner]

I don't think you can properly print or export in Arabic without the World-Ready Paragraph Composer.

[Eugene Tyson]

There's an option in the PDF settings under Advanced called Subset Fonts

Try set this to 0% and see if it makes a difference?

Are you using the ME version of InDesign?

[Shravan RM]

Hi Eugene,

I have tried above setting in PDF with 0% and also having same issue.

We are not using ME version of InDesign.

[Joel Cherney]

Oddly enough, this isn't an ME-version issue. I encountered it myself when one of my clients made a link to theit TikTok. Here's a demo of a TikTok link in InDesign:

The link chokes on the ampersand. The only fix I've found thus far is to do all of my links that contain problematic characters in Acrobat instead of within InDesign. There are some bug reports on uservoice that you can vote on, as well. But this issue (the malformed link that you wind up with in the final PDF) is not reliant on whether you are using a ME version of InDesign.