How can I determine the text encoding in a dwg file?

[Bitman75]

Hi there!

Can anybody answer my question(s)?

Does the text encoding depend on something in a dwg file or it is always the same? If it is always the same then what is it? Is it ANSI (very incredible) /UTF8/UTF16?

Thanks in advance!

[imadHabash]

Hi and Welcome to AutoCAD Forum,

>> Does the text encoding depend on something in a dwg file or it is always the same?  <<

texts always refer to the font style that you use it from STYLE command.

Regards,

[Bitman75]

I doesn't use any STYLE command. 🙂 I have to convert dwg file contents by program and I need the text encoding information for this. I found that my 3rd party tool given back ANSI encoded text. 😮 This tool gives back the right encoding in case of DXF depending on the file version. So I was surprised. Does the text styles contain encoding information style by style? 

[leeminardi]

I think AutoCAD 2018 uses UTF-16.

I tested this by using MTEXT to create some text and using the Insert, Symbol, Other... feature in the Text Editor to bring up a Character Map.  There you will see the UTF 16 encoding, e.g., . U+0041 for "A" and U+00B0 for the degree sign "°".

[Bitman75]

OK. But I have to read files made by unpredictable ACD versions...