InDesign keeps pasting as Arabic Language Dictionary

[#1]

This is happening to us in the CC2018 13.1 version.

I only saw one earlier example mentioned in the Forums (with CC2014).

Whenever a chunk of text, or text box is pasted into a fresh document, the language is Arabic. [Basic Paragraph] and all other styles have been set to English USA, and even though I do a find format/change format in the offending document, it still pastes as Arabic.

Exporting to .IDML, and reimporting did not solve.

[#2]

This is happening to us in the CC2018 13.1 version.

I only saw one earlier example mentioned in the Forums (with CC2014).

Whenever a chunk of text, or text box is pasted into a fresh document, the language is Arabic. [Basic Paragraph] and all other styles have been set to English USA, and even though I do a find format/change format in the offending document, it still pastes as Arabic.

Exporting to .IDML, and reimporting did not solve.

[#3]

Hi,

Can you see what happens when you change the language from the character panel when no documents are open in Indesign.

Also, did you try to clean both your cache and preferences?https://forums.adobe.com/thread/526990#

-Aman

[#4]

Thank you, for the response, Aman.
This is not our issue.

(I am an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, by the way,) and this one is a stumper, a glitch. It's not preferences. When a text box is copied from the offending document and into another fresh Indesign document, from another computer (or TO another computer) it still pastes as Arabic, and flushes right.

[#5]

With no document open go to the Character Panel and make sure that the Language is set to "English USA". Then go into the Paragraph Styles Panel and double-click on the Basic Paragraph Style. In the Advanced Character Formats section make sure that "Language:" is set to English USA. After you've set it in these places, quit InDesign. When you relaunch it will become the default for the program. See screen shot.

[#6]

Bill, Thank you.

This is not our issue.

(I am an Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign, by the way,) and this one is a stumper, a glitch. It's not preferences. When a text box is copied from the offending document and into another fresh Indesign document, from another computer (or TO another computer) it still pastes as Arabic, and flushes right.

[#7]

What happens if you adjust the language in the Character Panel and Paragraph Styles Panel after you paste in the text frames?

What happens if you just copy and paste the text from the original document into a fresh text frame in the new InDesign file?

[#8]

Thank you, Bill.

What happens if you adjust the language in the Character Panel and Paragraph Styles Panel after you paste in the text frames?

ANSWER: It fixes/works/becomes English USA.

What happens if you just copy and paste the text from the original document into a fresh text frame in the new InDesign file?

ANSWER: It pastes as Arabic (dictionary), and flushes right.

[#9]

Have you checked the Advanced character section of all the Paragraph and Character Styles in the original document for the language used? If there are any of the styles used there that are not defined as English USA then this behavior would not be unexpected. It is also possible that some individual characters in the document might have been defined in the Character Panel as Arabic. If you do a "Select All" in a text frame that is showing this behavior when pasted and look at the character panel and it is blank in the language field then that would mean that there is at least one character in the text that has been defined as Arabic since a blank language field would indicate multiple languages used in the text.

[#10]

Thank you, Bill.

I've run a document-wide Find/Change format of Advanced Character Formats-->change Arabic to English USA.

Then, I've saved the file as a copy. When that copy doc is opened, and a text box is copied from it and pasted into another fresh document, Arabic reappears.

[#11]

Is there a way to open/edit the idml file and change all references from Arabic to English USA?

[#12]

I'm not sure though if what you did would affect existing paragraph and character styles that have been applied. I've done similar find/changes in the past to change fonts globally only to find that it did not affect the fonts indicated in the paragraph and character styles. You may want to make sure that all styles have been changed and then apply them globally through find/change as well.

[#13]

• Can you tell us if your InDesign is a Middle Eastern version or not?
• Apparently this issue shows when you paste text, can you tell us what is the source of the text, eg. is it an existing InDesign document, MS. Word document or copying from the web?
• Is the text you're copying and pasting has any Arabic in it?

[#14]

It is not a Middle Eastern version of InDesign.

[#15]

I am also having this problem. I installed the Arabic version to create one document. And even though I have now tried to uninstall that version, this issue of copy and paste still happens.

If I create a new document, and copy the information into it, it pastes in arabic. If I then override any style sheets to correct the issue in the second document, and copy it again into a third document, it seems to copy successfully. Obviously that is a long-winded, unsatisfactory solution.

Rick, did you find an answer?

[#16]

No answer. Still persists.

[#17]

I am having what I think is the exact same problem. I have INDD 2018 English USA version (latest version) on a Mac running OSX 10.12.6. I work in multiple languages for a client and often move back and forth from English to numerous languages such as Chinese, French, etc. I am taking text from a source INDD document and placing it into another INDD document(for example French from one INDD document and pasting it over existing French text in another INDD document, and so on for each language). For this particular project I am working in 6 different languages and in every single language when I paste the text from INDD source file to INDD destination file it pastes it as Arabic (or right to left) composition. Even though none of these languages I am working in are Arabic (or even right to left), the language indicator at the top tool bar switches it to Arabic, changes the text to Adobe World Composer, and makes it flush right (as you would in Arabic). I have to go back each time I cut and paste to change all of these settings. Never have encountered this problem in my years working in multiple languages until now. Adobe staff, have you found any resolution for this issue? It's really slowing my work down. Happy to provide additional information if needed