Chinese characters disappear when editing a pdf file on Microsoft Edge

Anonymous
2022-03-15T14:09:02+00:00

Can someone help me with this.

I want to edit a pdf file on Microsoft Edge. It was fine with the English language; but I can't type Chinese characters, like they just disappear.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Microsoft Edge | Read PDFs | Windows 10

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-08-29T07:00:17+00:00

    I'm now on 104.0.1293.70. Just tested and problem remains for ALL unicode charaters in text box....

    So the text function of Edge does not seems like to support Unicode...

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-08-11T14:17:44+00:00

    I'm here at 11 Aug 2022, and this problem still alive. It's not only get wrong with Chinese letter but also with Vietnamese or Japanese too. Hope someone will fix it asap because i loved using edge but this failure is quite inconvinience for me (maybe with many pp).

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-06-30T11:27:51+00:00

    Yes, this issue still remains on the latest version, also, “add text ” function only available when edge is displayed in English, but the Chinese characters issue is still there.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-06-16T12:25:06+00:00

    I am having the same thing here. Chinese character can be inputted. But just not displayed in Edge.

    My Edge version is 103.0.1264.21 (Official build) beta (64-bit) with Win11 pro 21H2 (22000.739).

    I really like Edge as PDF tool, esp. for "Add text" function. Hope it can be fixed soon.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-05-29T15:39:17+00:00

    Hi @JeremiahV,
    Yes this is still a problem in latest version of Edge 101.0.1210.53 on Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22621 Build 22621
    I noticed in Edge settings that there is the Microsoft Editor which mentions that Chinese is not currently available in the Microsoft Editor (basic spellcheck available). I turned the Editor off and tried to input Chinese text using the IME candidate window and then clicked away from the window, but the Chinese text disappears. However when entering English text and clicking out of the edit window, the text remains on the document correctly.

    However, what I noticed is that the edits in Chinese text are actually working, but just not displaying in Edge. In other words, if I make an edit in Chinese text it doesn't directly display in Edge. But the edit is indeed there since I can open the PDF file in another editor like Foxit PDF Editor online and can see the Chinese text I had entered previously in Edge (but where Edge was not showing or displaying the font chars for some strange reason). Firefox, Opera, and Adobe Acrobat online are not showing the Chinese text, but curiously Adobe Acrobat online does indeed show the 2 edit boxes when I hover over the area I made the edits, but does not display any Chinese text font in those boxes.

    In summary, Edits in Chinese text are working but not displaying, so users have no idea edits are being made because it doesn't display on the document in Edge!

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