Indesign changes my keyboard input language

[alonemanuel]

Hi. I have a text box that has two paragraphs - one in english and one in hebrew:

When the caret goes over the text* in English, it changes my keyboard input to English, and when I go to the text in Hebrew, it changes it to Hebrew.

* to be more accurate, when I place the caret somewhere in the English/Hebrew paragraph, it doesn't change my input language. Only when I move the caret (with the arrow keys, for example) it will then change the input language.

All these changes are a burden and make my work extremely slow, and I've never seen an app that changes your input language for you.

I haven't found any info on this issue, so I wonder if it's a bug.

I'm using Indesign 2022 on my Windows 11 laptop.

Thanks!

[Ashutosh_Mishra]

Hi there,

Sorry to hear about your experience. Do you see this behavior in a specific document? Have you tried resetting preferences of the app? if not, please try that and let us know if it helps.

This information would help us assist you accordingly. Looking forward to your response.

Regards,

Ashutosh

[alonemanuel]

Hi, thanks for the reply!
I have tried resetting the settings and it still occurs.

[Randy Hagan]

I don't know if it's a bug, so much as an expectation.

InDesign expects if you want to add/change/edit English text that you'd likely want to do that with English characters. I suspect it has the same expectations for altering/adjusting Hebrew text with Hebrew characters.

The workaround I've used when working with multiple languages is to assume the language I'll get from the start of a paragraph will associate with that given language, and remain that way until I hit the return for the next paragraph. While I haven't created English/Hebrew documents, I have done so for English/French, English/Spanish and English/German documents. And that when I first create/click into a text frame or hit the return for the next paragraph, it will use the language version assigned to the InDesign installation.

When InDesign provides the wrong answer for my needs, I just copy/paste a text fragment from my document with the language characters I want, then highlight it and replace it with fresh text for my chosen language.

This may not be the most elegant solution, but it works for me. Hopefully it will be helpful for you too.

Good luck,

Randy

[Maiwand_R. Kheshkai]

I work with Persian, Pashto and English documents and had the same problem. Fortunately one of my PCs didn't have the problem. Even I set the same preferences of indesign for both of PCs but didn't work. Recently I found the problem comes from keyboard layouts of windows. This occurs for some languages that have an individual keyboard layout.
For me, the problem occurred only for Pashto language. So I removed all keyboard inputs only English remained. I add a layout of Persian keyboard and from "language options" added the Pashto (still both languages are written in Arabic alphabet, pashto exists in language options of Persian). As you can see in attached video, the problem was resolved and InDesign now maintains the same keyboard input according to the content. But still I didn't recognize why this problem happens for some of the languages.

[Abhishek Rao]

Hi @Maiwand_R. Kheshkai,

Thank you for sharing your detailed solution! It's great to hear that you were able to resolve the issue by adjusting the keyboard layouts. Your experience is very valuable and will certainly help others facing similar problems with language and keyboard input in InDesign. 

If you encounter any further issues or have any other insights, feel free to reach out. We're always happy to assist!

Best,
Abhishek