topic Re: ISO.shx missing special character from 2025 in AutoCAD Forum

ISO.shx missing special character from 2025

jolr — Tue, 27 May 2025 08:25:43 GMT

For the 2025 AutCAD installation the ISO.shx font became smaller in size, 4kb. In 2019-2024 it is 11kb.

And it missing special swedish character ÅÄÖ.

Why is that?

Re: ISO.shx missing special character from 2025

Simon_Weel — Tue, 27 May 2025 10:25:54 GMT

Don't know why, but just use the old one? And make a copy of it for future versions....

Re: ISO.shx missing special character from 2025

jolr — Tue, 27 May 2025 11:08:04 GMT

Yes, but this affect thousand of drawings that looks correct in 2024. And many user at all companies that not all have the rights to changed it on there computer or knowledge to fix it.

Re: ISO.shx missing special character from 2025

paullimapa — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:04:22 GMT

Report the problem to Autodesk but for now you’ll have to inform the users how to use the previous version.

Re: ISO.shx missing special character from 2025

Simon_Weel — Wed, 28 May 2025 06:39:10 GMT

True - that's why we have a support folder on a network share holding all kinds of stuff, including shx files, so everybody uses the same files regardless AutoCAD version.

Re: ISO.shx missing special character from 2025

jolr — Wed, 28 May 2025 06:39:22 GMT

I got an answer from autodesk

It is because they want to reduce file size.

"...SHX fonts, including ISO.shx have diacritic restrictions. In versions before 2024, for example German and Swedish characters were available, which is not available in the current version. Polish and Czech characters for example were not available at all. The reason for this is to reduce the size of the installation files and the space the program takes up on the disk. The program is evolving, so some features had to give way to others..."

Re: ISO.shx missing special character from 2025

paullimapa — Wed, 28 May 2025 06:42:10 GMT

once again, you'll have to come up with a way to resolve the issue on your own.