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Does Photoshop support unicode characters? (Windows)

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I am trying to type Tamil text in Photoshop CS3. I typed Tamil text using Google Transliteration (http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Tamil) then pasted in Photoshop, but it is not working. As Google Transliteration uses Unicode, it must work in photoshop as well (if Photoshop supports Unicode).

Does photoshop support Unicode? If so what am I missing?

If photoshop does not support Unicode, how can I type Tamil text in photoshop?

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I don't think its so much PS as the font you are using. If the font doesn't have the Tamil characters in it, then it can't support its representation.

If you have a Tamil font, I'm not sure entering the Unicode number directly (at the cursor) will work.

In ASCII you can enter the ASCII number by pressing and holding the alt key while typing in the 3 digit code (numbers from 000 - 255) on the numberic key pad and if the Font supports the number you have entered (not all fonts support the full ASCII range) the character will appear at the cursor. If you have a Tamil font and an ASCII map into it try entering the codes as above.

How you type in a Unicode without having your keyboard mapped to the specific language and the fonts to go with it, I don't know.

If you are getting the actual Tamil characters you want from Google then copy the screen into the Clipboard by pressing PrtScn. Open a new document and paste the Clipboard into it, then cut and paste to get message in the format you need.

Here are a couple of links that may be of help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Mapping_and_encodings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_script

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Mike

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Sanjeev Beekeeper

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You CAN type tamil or any other language inside Photoshop (Iam using Photoshop CS6, it should work in the older version too). Change your keyboard from English to Tamil from the control panel language options and make sure you have some tamil font installed in your system. Then type something and select the tamil font inside photoshop.

Some examples are Chinese, Tamil and arabic are below. Let me know if you need anything and also visit my blog for more photoshop tutorials http://www.beekeepersblog.com.

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chenet0005

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I Found Solution Here...

http://www.adobeexpert.in/?p=71

How to Type Tamil in Photoshop

Posted on December 16, 2011

கம்ப்யூட்டரில் தமிழில் டைப் செய்ய தமிழின் ஒருங்கு குறி (unicode) பயன்படுத்தும் அனைவருக்கும் ஒரு பிரச்னை ஏற்படும். தாங்கள் அதிகம் விரும்பும் போடோஷோபில் ஒருங்கு குறி(Unicode font) பயன் படுத்த முடியாமல் கஷ்டபடுவார்கள்.

அவர்களின் வேதனை தீர்க்கவே இதோ வழிமுறைகள்.

1. உங்களுக்கு இது போன்றே கிடைக்கும் Tamil in Photoshop

2. இந்த போட்டோஷாப் பைலை டவுன்லோட் செய்யவும்

Tamil in Photoshop

3. கிடைத்த போட்டோஷாப் பைலை டெம்ப்லேட் பைலாக கொண்டு வேறு இடத்தில் (வோர்ட் WORD அல்லது ப்ரௌசரில் BROWSER-il) நீங்கள் டைப் செய்துள்ள தமிழ் டெக்ஸ்ட்டை பேஸ்ட் (Paste) செய்யவும். (இங்கு டைப் செய்ய வேண்டாம்…) உங்களுக்கு திருத்தப்பட்ட தமிழ் வடிவம் கிடைத்திருக்கும். நீங்கள் இப்போது இந்த டெக்ஸ்ட்-ஐ நீங்கள் விரும்பிய இடத்தில காப்பி (Copy) செய்து பேஸ்ட் (paste) செய்யவும்.

Tamil in Photoshop

4. இந்த டெம்ப்லேட் பைலில் டைப் செய்ய வேண்டாம். அது எரர் (Error) ஆகும். Dont try to Type in Photoshop file, It may hang your photoshop

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Jayanta_Nath

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Dear All,

Use the Adobe Middle Eastern Version CS2,CS3,CS4, or coming CS5. It is support all Indic unicode version. The distributor of this version is Winsoft International (http://www.winsoft-international.com/). Download the trial and check it out.It allows you to edit and work in one or several of the following languages at the same time: Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Farsi, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer/Cambodian, Lao, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese

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Anonymous

Here's another link that tells you how to enter Unicode characters, this may be more useful than the others.

http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm

Note that you still need a Tamil Font in order to accomplish the task.

Mike

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KAAVIYA__THE_QUEEN_Author

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Web browsers understand (Unicode) Tamil text without any fonts. Why Photoshop still needs a font?

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Anonymous

I'm not sure that it does, but short of having direct access to your computer, I can't really find out. Pehaps your browser has a private cache of fonts.

Perhaps you have a Tamil Font on your system. To find out, open a PS document, select the Type Tool, on the Property Bar at the left end is a drop down menu click on it and you will find a listing of the fonts available to PS on your system. Beside each font name is an example of the text you will get if you use that font. Scroll through it to see if you can find a Tamil Font.

If you find a Tamil font then make it the active one by clicking on it. Then use the methods descibed above to input your message.

Otherwise we may have to search for the Tamil Font your browser is using.

Mike

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Anonymous

Correct answer

I don't think its so much PS as the font you are using. If the font doesn't have the Tamil characters in it, then it can't support its representation.

If you have a Tamil font, I'm not sure entering the Unicode number directly (at the cursor) will work.

In ASCII you can enter the ASCII number by pressing and holding the alt key while typing in the 3 digit code (numbers from 000 - 255) on the numberic key pad and if the Font supports the number you have entered (not all fonts support the full ASCII range) the character will appear at the cursor. If you have a Tamil font and an ASCII map into it try entering the codes as above.

How you type in a Unicode without having your keyboard mapped to the specific language and the fonts to go with it, I don't know.

If you are getting the actual Tamil characters you want from Google then copy the screen into the Clipboard by pressing PrtScn. Open a new document and paste the Clipboard into it, then cut and paste to get message in the format you need.

Here are a couple of links that may be of help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Mapping_and_encodings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_script

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Mike

KazVorpal

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^This is wrong.

Dunno if it was partially correct in 2009, but it probably was not, and it's definitely wrong now. The problem is definitely Photoshop.

For example, I'm wanting to use this Unicode character, the Angzarr:

⍼

You can see it just fine, here, using (checks style sheet) Adobe Clean Serif.

But I try to use it in Photoshop, pasting it in just as I did above, and I get an [X] symbol, in Adobe Clean Serif and every other of the hundreds of fonts I have installed.

I go to https://wordmark.it — a website that shows text in all fonts on your system. I check there: Most of my fonts show ⍼ just fine.

But the EXACT same font, in Photoshop, gives me the square X placeholder.

Either Photoshop ITSELF cannot show it, or in order to show it I can't simply paste it in the way I'm doing here in Chrome, and elsewhere, but must go through some needlessly obscure special effort that I'm unaware of.

I can't use the Glyphs panel, because it only provides a subset of glyphs that some genius bureaucrat at Adobe decided were the only ones I'll ever need.

And what I need is ⍼

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Three fonts that we have on a windows 10 system with photoshop 2022 (ps ver 23.5.1) support the angzarr unicode character. Cambria, STIX Two Math and Segoe UI Symbol.

On the Mac side STIX Two Math and Apple Symbols.

How to Type Tamil in Photoshop

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