Pasting mixed English and Hebrew text

[lorynj]

I am pasting from a Google Doc sporting unicode multi-lingual text (Hebrew interspersed in English).

google-doc-mixed-language-text.png

I copy and paste the paragraph into my Flare document, and get the following:

flare-mixed-language-text.jpg

I'm using Flare 2018 r2 on a Windows 10 machine having both English and Hebrew language packs installed at the operating system level. My project has English installed as the project output language. The Google Doc's font is Times New Roman and the Flare document's font is EB Garamond.

Does anyone know what to do to get the proper Hebrew characters showing in the Flare document?

[ChoccieMuffin]

Just a thought - can't try it as I don't have the correct fonts installed - but could you include a new span that uses the font you want, and then apply the span to any Hebrew text? I suspect that the Garamond you have installed on your system doesn't contain the correct characters, so including a span.Hebrew that uses Times New Roman might do the trick for you. Obviously if you have loads of little bits of Hebrew interspersed you might not want to have to apply spans all over the place, so perhaps investigate Garamond a bit more to see if there are any other bits that can be added. (Disclaimer: I always get confused with fonts so I could be talking complete garbage here.) Or could you use a different font in your Flare project?

[lorynj]

Hi ChoccieMuffin

I did try your suggestion of applying a span.Hebrew using Times New Roman font before I made the initial post. It didn't provide the solution to the issue, in that it displayed exactly the same characters as was displayed using the EB Garamond font.

[ChoccieMuffin]

I'd have to try a few things, to see if I could track down where the problem lies.

In the text editor, what do you get for the Hebrew bits? Is it what you'd expect? Compare what you've imported to the same bit of text that you type in yourself in Flare.
If it's not the same, then what you've copied and pasted could be the problem rather than Flare. I would try to copy and paste into something else, such as Word, to see what happens.
I'm not familiar with Google docs. What happens if you save the doc in a different format and then either import the new doc or copy and paste from it?

Just a few starting suggestions, though I suspect you may have already tried some or all of them. Good luck.

[SteveS]

Have you tried creating a font family in your stylesheet that includes the font with the correct Hebrew characters? Bit of a long shot...