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• • October 7, 2017 at 11:40 pm #98675
    Eric Southwick

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    I work on ID CC 2017 latest release and update.
    I placed an excel file.
    In the cells are English an Thai language.
    In excel I am using “Calibri” for both the English and Thai no problem.
    When it places in ID the Thai is all in ????? boxes.It doesn’t display.
    I installed “Adobe Thai” type kit nothing changed.
    Thought to replace the ???? with a font that would display but as both the English and Thai but both are called “Calibri” when i go to find font and replace it it replaces both the English and Thai.

    I have gone and deleted all of the cashed AdobeFnT*.Lst files.

  • October 8, 2017 at 2:34 am #98676
    Graham Park

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    Looks to me like you need to change the font of only the Thai text.
    Try this Grep to do this and then apply the Thai font. Not sure it will work but works on some sample text I made.
    This finds the Thai block in Unicode

    [\x{0E01}-\x{0E5B}]

  • October 8, 2017 at 9:58 pm #98685
    Graham Park

    Member

    Sorry I think I missed the end of the Thai character set, first list I used was shorter not the full 86/87 characters
    [\x{0E00}-\x{0E7F}]

    See Wikipedia for the Thai Unicode block
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_block

  • October 9, 2017 at 1:00 am #98686
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    If the above doesn’t work, you might need to check if you’re using World Ready Paragraph Composer or World Ready Single-line Composer.

    Chris.

  • October 9, 2017 at 1:22 am #98687
    Graham Park

    Member

    Chris
    The World Ready Composer help to space the accents vertically correctly (not sure what they are called in Thai).
    But the text displays either way.
    I used this sample text https://www.omniglot.com/babel/thai.htm
    Placed that, it all comes out as the hashed rectangles of unicode characters that are missing.
    Run GREP find and replace with either a Character or Paragraph style (I prefer the Paragraph style as long as the Thai text is alone in a paragraph the find will work and nor miss anything, if there is mixed text then you will need to use a character style) and the text appear correctly in Thai.
    Really need someone who reads Thai to ensure it is correct.

  • October 9, 2017 at 7:47 am #98697
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Importing files from non-English languages can be tricky! Diane Burns wrote about this in some detail in her 3-part series in InDesign Magazine: https://creativepro.com/issues/issue-12

    It could simply be an encoding problem in the Excel file, or that InDesign isn’t recognizing the encoding in the font on import.

    • October 10, 2017 at 3:38 am #98722
      Chris Thompson

      Member

      Aah of course, Excel, that well-known mangler of data. At one time, I used to have to translate text from Excel files where even for W European languages, all the accented characters had become a string of four “top row” characters @$%! At least it was consistent in the way it mangled them.
      So what Excel might do to Thai in an import is anyone’s guess.

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