Cannot select "default" settings for Custom Language Fonts

Question

I noticed that if you select "default" under Custom Language Fonts for both Japanese or English (United States) you cannot hit the OK or Cancel buttons.
However, when I tried German (Germany), selecting "default" was possible. This behavior seems odd to me, can everyone select "default" for their languages?
Also, on my PC, even if you change the language, the settings always changes back to "Afar (Dijibouti)", I was wondering if this is normal behavior.

Alison Field · Accepted Answer

Hi Jesse, 
 
I was going to suggest that this must be because US English and Japanese are your default language pair and are already set to the default font but actually, I've found the following: 
 
1. Via File > Options, select any language from the language list dropdown under Font Adaptation. 
 
2. Select a font in the Fonts dropdown for that language (here, you can click OK or Cancel or just keep the font list open and perform step no. 3). 
 (If necessary via File > Options> Font Adaptation, select the same language again then open the fonts dropdown). 
 
3. Return to the top of the default language font and click 'default'. 
 OK and Cancel do not work until you click into a different item on the Editor list then click back to Font Adaptation and then it works fine... 
 
Secondly, the list just returns to "Afar (Dijibouti)" because it's the first language in the alphabet so it's just going 'to the top of the page'. 
If you've made a selection for a particular language/s to use anything but the default font, your settings will still be retained until you change them. 
 
Hope this helps 
All the best 
Ali :)

Alison Field · Answer

Hi Jesse, 
 Sorry I didn't reply earlier, have had visitors today. 
 I don't think that it is by design that 'OK and Cancel do not work until you click into a different item on the Editor list then click back to Font Adaptation'. I am sure this is an unintentional 'feature' [;)] 
 Re: 'I don't want to select the language from the dropdown each time': If someone is using a lot of different languages, a project manager for example, they may decide to set a different font for some or all of those languages to improve readability for example. Once they'd selected a font, it would stay set until they changed it of course. 
 I guess Font Adaptation could be set so that it returned to the last language set in the list when opened again but that would only really be useful if one only had one language set to a font other than default and wanted to change that font frequently. The font set for a language stays set until one opens Font Adaptation and changes it to a different/the default font. 
 What do you think? 
 Have a good night, 
 Ali [:D]

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