Indic
Illustrator includes support for Indic, Middle Eastern, and South East Asian languages. You can create documents using text from these languages. The additional Middle Eastern and South Asian Composer provides correct word shaping for many non-Western scripts.
Text features across Adobe applications do not necessarily have feature parity as each application can rely on different text engines. Additionally, text features can vary according to the primary usage of the application (image editing, page layout, illustration, and so on), so the preservation of formatting, style, and editability across applications can also vary according to the type treatments you choose to apply.
South Eastern Asian (SEA) languages or scripts are not currently supported on all Adobe products. Moving SEA text from an Adobe app that currently supports SEA scripts to an application that does not support them, will likely result in a loss of some or all of the text copy, formatting, etc. In this case, note the following:
The Middle Eastern and South Asian composer supports the following languages:
Indic |
Middle Eastern |
South East Asian |
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To use these languages properly on Windows, you must install the language and font packs for the particular language you want to use.
For details, see Microsoft's Help documentation: Language Packs.
To create a new document using one of the supported languages:
When you enable East Asian or Indic language options, the following composers are available in the flyout menu of the Paragraph panel (available in the Control panel or through Ctrl+T):
In Preferences > Type, you can select only one of the Indic and East Asian options at a time. You can choose to have both options off or select one of the two.
You can select a relevant language option in the Language drop-down menu of the Character section in the Properties panel, as shown below. This option is used to check hyphenation and spelling.
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