Text export

[vladop]

For some time now I have had two problems with exporting text from AutoCAD that I can't solve:

1. When I copy from Attribute Editor

in Notepad I get text with formatting code 

2. When I export text (e.g. with ATTOUT) that is displayed in AUTOCAD correctly, 

in NOTEPAD for Cyrillic letters I get � and for non-ascii Latin letters \U+ code.

ATTIN import works without problems with all letters.

"Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support" is enabled.

Any idea?

[imadHabash]

Hi,

1.  Try to Paste into Word or excel first (Use “Paste Special → Unformatted Text”, then copy again to note pad to get rid from those formatting codes.

2. Open the file in Notepad++ or another editor that supports encoding selection

   • Open the exported .txt file in Notepad++.

   • Go to Encoding → Character sets → Cyrillic → (choose your Windows code page, e.g. Windows-1251).

   • Now all Cyrillic and extended Latin letters will display properly.

[vladop]

Hi Imad, thanks for the quick reply.

“Paste Special → Unformatted Text” doesn't help.

Changing to Windows-1251 in Notepad++ only fixed Cyrillic characters.

Even the Default encoding for "Save As" in Notepad is UTF-8, not ANSI.

Copying and pasting in Attribute Editor also adds formatting.

A month or two ago I experimented with exporting attributes to SQLite using ObjectARX.

I had the same problems with non-ascii characters.

I probably messed something up then.

If it was a Windows or AutoCAD update someone else would have had the same problem.

[vladop]

In the meantime I have installed a newer version of AutoCAD and it behaves the same.

This suggests that the problem is in Windows.

[vladop]

I also had problems in MS Outlook.

I messed up something in Windows.