Bug: Problem with typing in Korean (Hangul)

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September 9, 2021
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I got a few reports that text function works weirdly when typing Korean these days. (the video below was taken a week ago, and I still have the same issue)
it gets better after rebooting Figma completely, but it is not the best solution.

Korean people are having the same issue these days, here’s a reference from Korean community;

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Is there any way I can solve this problem as a user? Or is Figma team already working on this bug? Thanks in advance 🙂

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user344

I am also having the same problem - I have restared the Figma, deleted a main language as Korean and add them back in at Settings - pls fix this issue as soon as possible

Gleb

Power Member

Inter doesn’t support Korean. One of the fonts that supports it is Noto Sans KR.

Delong_Fu

Figmate

yep thats correct. For fonts that do not support hangul, figma falls back to other font. i wanted to test if it was an issue with a specifc font or if it was an issue with the fallback font. I am unfortunately unable to reproduce the issue so far

Gleb

Power Member

Good call! The fallback font is Noto Sans, and it may work slightly differently on different systems (some people have it installed locally for example). Also as far as I understand, this issue is only present while typing (not in pasted text) and only in the desktop app, so I don’t think the issue is related to fonts, but rather to the input method.

hyojeong_jin

I also have the same problem

mlloyd

Figmate

Please let us know what browser/environment you are seeing this in – I could reproduce on M1 macOS Monterey Chrome 96.0.4664.93 but when I upgraded to 96.0.4664.110 it was fixed. I could reproduce for a while on the Desktop app, but if I type a very long string into a text box it starts working again.

Thinking_Cactus

This issue also continues to happen to me. This issue does not occur on my Intel Mac or my Windows laptop. Its only happening on my M1 Mac desktop app (MacOS updated to the latest version Monterey).

Thinking_Cactus

I just fixed this issue on my computer. I hope it can be solved in the same way for others.

I realized that I could not find Noto Sans CJK KR font on Figma client, so I re-downloaded Noto Sans Korean from Google Fonts and now it works properly as expected. (Google Fonts)

After font install, I restarted Figma desktop client and it works well now.

Noto Sans Korean used to be called Noto Sans CJK KR, but the name is now changed to Noto Sans Korean by Google. Maybe this whole issue has something to do with this. Maybe something to do with fallback font not being recognized properly or not loading from OS system due to naming issue…