Mac OS X: Font stays the same when you revert input methods

If the font in your text application doesn't change back when you switch back to the original input method, select the text you typed and change the font. This can happen when you use two or more input methods in English, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean and are using a Mac OS X "Cocoa" application.
For example, you start a document in a Cocoa text application using the English input method. You type some English text. You switch to a Korean input method and type some more text. All the text appears the way you'd expect--English in an English font and Korean in a Korean font. Then you switch back to the English input method and type more, but the new text is still in a Korean font.

To fix this, select the text to be changed, then use the application's Font menu (or Show Fonts menu choice in a differently-named menu) to change the font to what it should be.

To avoid this, use a Mac OS X "Carbon" application that doesn't experience this issue. You could, for example, type a document in one of these applications, then copy and paste the text into your Mac OS X application.

Tip: WorldText, a Carbon application, is available on the Developer Tools CD that came with your computer and with Mac OS X software installation discs.


This document will be updated as more information becomes available.

Published Date: Oct 11, 2016