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
    2024-11-15T04:57:48+00:00

    on behalf of all Mandalorians. This is the way!

    I have a solution that consistently works for me. Apparently, Microsoft is partnering with Adobe to bring an "improved" PDF editor, which is apparently just the old one but with fixes and optimisations. One of those fixes seems to be this very issue.

    All you have to do is enable the flag: #edge-new-pdf-viewer

    To do so, paste this in your address bar: edge://flags/#edge-new-pdf-viewer

    Then, restart. Chinese/unicode rendering fixes seem to have been added only to the new PDF viewer in the latest update. After doing this, I experienced absolutely no problems trying to annotate Chinese characters.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-29T08:03:01+00:00

    Yes it has been years now and the problem is still not resolved by Microsoft.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-15T12:37:56+00:00

    15th March 2023 - SOLUTION: download Mozilla Firefox Browser!!! Different scripts like Chinese and Korean will show up on there and you can add text in different colours and draw on the PDF similar to what you can do on Edge.

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2022-12-02T10:39:04+00:00

    its 2020-12-02, this problem still here and that's really make me confuse.

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