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But you can't copy/paste
Authored by: clarkcb on Sep 17, '03 07:00:29PM

In my experience with Illustrator since 8, when you paste Asian text from Word into Illustrator the text often appears as nonsensical characters unless Illustrator already "knows" that you are inputting in an Asian language. I get around this by providing a hint:

  1. switch to the IME for the desired language
  2. type a single Asian character into the desired paste location
  3. paste the copied text from Word after this character
  4. delete the character from step 2

The text should paste in correctly after the hint character has been entered. It's kind of kludgy, and from another hint I see that setting the font ahead of time may also do the trick, but I haven't tried that yet and this approach has always worked for me.



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