Visualization

[#1]

I have a dwg file with all of the text encoded in the Shift-JIS character set.  It contains only a few Japanese characters, and the rest appear to be the Shift-JIS equivalents of Roman characters.

Now I'm just trying to set the text style in AutoCAD to make it show up correctly.  I've tried Big Font: extfont.shx and extfont2.shx, but neither one works.

The text in this file should read "DWG. NO." (confirmed by copying it into Notepad++, and changing its encoding to Shift-JIS)

[#2 · Accepted solution]

I found a workaround to this problem.  Here's what I did, for anyone else who might be having this same issue:

You have to use a text editor that’s capable of re-encoding into a different character set.

I’m using Notepad++ (Unicode version), which you can download here.

Open the DXF file in Notepad++

Go to Encoding > Character Sets > Japanese > Shift-JIS

Edit: Select All

Copy

File: New

Paste into the new file (This will convert all of the English characters from Shift-JIS back to their ANSI equivalents)

File: Save

Open the new file in AutoCAD (All of the English characters should now show up normally, and Japanese characters will show up as question marks.)

Note:

This solution will not work for files in DWG format.  They must be saved to DXF first.

[#3]

Also, this only works with files saved as DXF 2004 or older.