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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 letters).
so if you use arabic letters it make the text box disappear and when you use it with english in the same text box it disappear too and if you use numbers too with english letters and arabic, only the arabic letters will disappear and the numbers and the english letters will stay soo uhhhhhhhh help.
- Hey 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!
Wenze_ZhangMicrosoft
Why still not supporting Chinese!!!!!!????? Can you do it ASAP?? This is really bad experience, hard to believe that this is a product from Microsoft! It has been past half year, but the issue still hasn't been fully addressed???? What are the development engineers working? This is a huge bug, can you fix it, it really annoys people all around the world to be not able to add their language when reading and editing PDF, this bug is so obvious, but you still don't put it as a first priority??? Really cannot believe it.- Hi Alexandra-R. First of all, thanks to the edge pdf team for the great feature of adding text to pdf files. I think this is definitely a very useful feature for a lot of people. But it doesn't support many foreign languages, which frustrates many users. Could you please escalate this requirement to the EDGE team for expedited processing?
- Alexandra-R
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?
Alex Rowell (she/her)
Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
Discuss Stable features and issues on the answers.microsoft.com forums, join us on Twitter, or join the communities over on Reddit in r/MicrosoftEdge or r/edge- It seems that there is almost a year and the problem still exists. We are working with Ministries of Education (and their thousands of schools) in Middle East where Microsoft is considered the de facto provider for IT solutions. Unfortunately students and teachers cannot edit PDF files in Arabic or even in English (the "add text" button does not appear even with the latest Edge edition). Very bad experience for them, bad reputation for Microsoft and huge problems for us that promoted this solution and we are just in the middle without being able to do anything.
You can contact me directly to give more details on the situation although I imagine that Microsoft Education in Dubai has heard about this first hand. So yes when i click on it the Arabic letters appear back again
and this is the version
(sorry for replying late :c )
- Alexandra-RThanks 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. 😃
Alexandra-R Hi,I'm currentlly using the latest version of Edge and the ADD TEXT issue still remains, it seems that this issue only demonstrate when type the UNICODE characters.
- I like use edage to read paper,edage is my favorate to read reaching paper with PDF . I like adding txt ,but now it is not supported for Chinese. I hope you can debug it recently LastBurrito!
- I have the same problem too. Before when I was using my old laptop other languages, like Korean, works pretty well. But when I bought a new laptop and had to install the same edge browser, Korean characters don't suddenly work. What happened?
- Some of Lithuanian letters are not supported too: ąčęėįųū.
Interesting that these letters are supported: šž.
I wish Armenian was supported. - It is the end of 2022, and Microsoft still doesn't support Arabic which is a language with more than 400 million speakers!! The more fun part is that they support languages with less than two million speakers combined!!
I wish it would be pleasure to support Bumese Language for text editor.
LastBurrito Please add Polish too
- Same with some unicode characters, words containing č or Č (unicode 010D or 010C respectively) still disappearing, there are a lot of claimed-by-edge-team-supported languages such as Slovenian, but it is still impossible to add text with simple čirk... =(
wvolkovI abandoned Edge as a tool for editing PDFs and adopted Firefox. Its latest version is occupied with a text tool and one can add text in Greek language very smoothly and easily. Microsoft seems not to care for amending this faulty feature.
For me, problem solved.
