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Created by T Nishi
Created on Jul 30, 2026

Garbled Text (Mojibake) when using CJK Variable Fonts (e.g., Noto Sans JP)

There is a severe rendering issue when using CJK (Japanese/Chinese/Korean) Variable Fonts, such as Google's "Noto Sans JP", in CorelDRAW.

Issue: When typing text using a variable font, the text appears correctly in the "Edit Text" dialog box. However, on the main canvas, the characters frequently become garbled (Mojibake) and change into completely different, random Kanji characters, especially after some time passes or the document is refreshed.

Cause: It appears that CorelDRAW's text rendering engine struggles with the massive glyph mapping tables of CJK variable fonts, causing the font cache or unicode referencing to break during canvas rendering.

Expected Behavior: CJK Variable fonts should render correctly and stably on the canvas, just as they do in Adobe Illustrator and other design software.

Currently, the only workaround is to uninstall the variable font and use the static (.ttf/.otf) versions instead. Please improve the text engine's compatibility with large-scale Variable Fonts.

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