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LastBurrito
Nov 10, 2021Brass Contributor
Microsoft Edge pdf Adding text with arabic letters disappear
Hello While I'm studying i noticed there is adding text to the pdf so I tried that and when I use Arabic letters in the text box, The text box jut disappear (if you only use arabic and english lette...
- Nov 11, 2021Hey there, I'm back with an update! Arabic is not currently a supported language in the Add Text feature (sorry for not catching that before asking a bunch of extra questions!)
The team is looking to increase the language support for Add Text and I made sure they knew we have an interest here for Arabic, but no current updates on when the supported languages might change. Sorry I don't have an immediate fix for this!
Alexandra-R
Nov 10, 2021Bronze Contributor
Hey there LastBurrito! Thanks for reporting this. What version of Edge are you seeing this in? Also, for the example where you partly enter English and partly Arabic, when you click back into the text box does the Arabic text reappear while editing?
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LastBurrito
Nov 11, 2021Brass Contributor
So yes when i click on it the Arabic letters appear back again
and this is the version
(sorry for replying late :c )
- Alexandra-RNov 11, 2021Bronze ContributorThanks so much for reporting (and no worries on the overnight response, I'm just as happy to flag this to the team today as yesterday!)
I'm able to reproduce this on Stable, so I'm adding that to my flag to the team for this! I shouldn't need any other info from you while they look into this, but if I do I'll circle back here. 😃- Shafqat787Jun 05, 2023Copper ContributorHi Alexandra,
Please advise if this issue is resolved as I found still the text disappear if I add any text in Arabic.
With Kind Regards,- dona1735Jun 05, 2023Copper Contributor
Shafqat787 don't bother friend, MS do not want to resolve our issue. Fotget this
- LastBurritoNov 11, 2021Brass ContributorThank you soo much for replying and I really appreciate you and your team replying and taking care about small bug like this. fixing this might be small but huge for me for my studying it will help a lot so thanks again❤️.
- Alexandra-RNov 11, 2021Bronze ContributorHey there, I'm back with an update! Arabic is not currently a supported language in the Add Text feature (sorry for not catching that before asking a bunch of extra questions!)
The team is looking to increase the language support for Add Text and I made sure they knew we have an interest here for Arabic, but no current updates on when the supported languages might change. Sorry I don't have an immediate fix for this!