Languages and scripts
A signed document is only right if every name in it is. Whatever script a signer types in, it is drawn into the PDF as real text in a font made for it, and reads back exactly as typed.
What this covers
Your own document can be in any language at all: ShareSign never redraws the pages you upload. This page is about the text ShareSign itself writes into the signed PDF: the values signers type into fields, names and dates, every line of the certificate of completion, and the agreements ShareSign generates. That text is set in the fonts below, which travel inside the PDF, so it looks the same on every device and can be selected, searched and copied.
The 24 scripts
| Latin, Greek and Cyrillic | English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian |
|---|---|
| Arabic | Arabic, Persian, Urdu |
| Hebrew | Hebrew |
| Devanagari | Hindi, Marathi, Nepali |
| Bengali | Bengali, Assamese |
| Gujarati | Gujarati |
| Gurmukhi | Punjabi |
| Kannada | Kannada |
| Malayalam | Malayalam |
| Odia | Odia |
| Tamil | Tamil |
| Telugu | Telugu |
| Sinhala | Sinhala |
| Thai | Thai |
| Lao | Lao |
| Khmer | Khmer |
| Myanmar | Burmese |
| Tibetan | Tibetan, Dzongkha |
| Georgian | Georgian |
| Armenian | Armenian |
| Ethiopic | Amharic, Tigrinya |
| Chinese | Chinese, simplified and traditional characters |
| Japanese | Japanese: kanji, hiragana and katakana |
| Korean | Korean: Hangul and Hanja |
Each of these is drawn with a font made for that script, and a name reads back from the finished PDF exactly as it was typed.
How it behaves
| Right to left | Arabic and Hebrew values are set right to left and aligned to the right of their field; digits and Latin words inside them keep their own direction. |
|---|---|
| Mixed scripts | One value can mix scripts: a Japanese name with a Latin company, a Hindi name with an English title. Each stretch takes its own font on one baseline. |
| Joined and stacked letters | Arabic joins, Indian conjuncts, Thai and Khmer marks, Tibetan stacks and the like are shaped by the same engine browsers use, then checked: if trimming a font would change how a word is drawn, the whole font goes in instead. |
| Chinese, Japanese, Korean | A shared character takes the Japanese font in text with kana, the Korean font in text with Hangul, and the Chinese font otherwise, so a name is drawn in its own country's forms. |
| No spaces between words | Thai, Lao, Khmer and Burmese break lines at word boundaries from a dictionary, not in the middle of a word. |
| Long values | A value that does not fit its box wraps if the box is tall enough, then shrinks to a floor, and only then is cut at the box; it never spills over the document. |
| Emoji | Drawn in black and white, as ink would be. |
| File size | Only the characters a document uses are embedded, so a name in Chinese adds a few kilobytes, not a ten-megabyte font. |
Good to know
The typed signature styles are Latin handwriting. A signer whose name is in another script can draw their signature by hand, which works in any script. ShareSign’s own screens and emails are in English; the message you write to your signers can be in any language.
Last changed 18 September 2026. Something wrong here? Say so on the support page.