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Irene Martin
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July 19, 2022
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Khmer language showing "+" sign

  • July 19, 2022
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I'm trying to layout a manual in Khmer, and I keep having "+" show up under some letters. Here are my current settings:

 

  • Windows 10
  • InDesign 2022 (17.3)
  • Language set to Khmer (Cambodia)
  • Adobe World Ready Paragraph Composer set
  • HarfBuzz Override set

 

I've tried a number of different fonts. Some of them also don't show glyphs correctly. But all of them have the + sign. Is there any workaround for this?

    Correct answer Irene Martin

    Sorry for the delay. Will it be possible for you to share the file with us? If yes, please try the steps shared here to share the file https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/share-your-files-in-6-simple-steps/td-p/12967520


    So I opened the file to get it ready to upload here and lo and behold, it's working now! It seems the trick is having world-ready composer on, because the textboxes it's not turned on for are still wrong. I'm not sure why I need to set it per textbox because I also have it set in my document preferences already. And I don't know why it works now and didn't earlier, because I did have it turned on earlier.

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    Rishabh_Tiwari
    Rishabh_Tiwari
    Legend
    July 19, 2022

    Hi @Irene Martin ,

     

    Sorry to hear about the trouble. Please try the suggestions shared here https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/weird-appears-under-khmer-how-to-fix-this/m-p/12021667#M425307 and let us know if this helps or if you need any further assistance.

     

    Regards

    Rishabh

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    Irene MartinAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 19, 2022

    Sorry yes, I should've mentioned that I did look at this post. That is where I got the info for harfbuzz. But I wasn't able to find a fix from that thread.

    Joel Cherney
    Community Expert
    Joel CherneyCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 27, 2022

    As far as I know I don't have Middle Eastern InDesign installed. I've never worked with those languages yet. My preferences in CC are set to English. So I have been copying and pasting, but if I place the document into InDesign, it's fine, even if WRC gets turned on. I was hoping to avoid placing the document, because I have a lot of master pages, so it will take a lot more work. But maybe that will be my only option.


    One thing I post here frequently, for people in your position, is the phrase "Never trust the Clipboard." It tends to induce problems when handling complex-script text. This is not true in all cases, and it's more often true in Windows than in macOS. But if either the source from which I'm copying, or the target I'm pasting to, happent to be InDesign or MS Word or or Excel, or even a web browser, I will put a lot of effort into cooking up some alternate workflow that doesn't rely on the Clipboard. 

     

     

     

     

     

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