French language characters(Text) are displayed as ? in AutoCAD 2015.

[Anonymous]

Problem :- French language characters are displayed as ? in AutoCAD if we double click on that block(Enhance Attribute Editor) then we can see the french language characters properly however they are displayed as ? in AutoCAD 2015.

What I tried to overcome this problem:-

1. I have tried to install AutoCAD 2015 French Language pack however it is also showing ? for French characters.

(Not solved with 1 approach)

2.After some investigation and trial and error I come to know in Text Style dialog box(Format->Text Style) if we change Font Name field of Text Style to point at ROMANCE.SHX then these french language characters will get properly displayed.

(Solved with 2 approach)

So with the use of objectARX I am trying to iterate TextStyle and set all text style to ROMACE.SHX.

My question is weather this approach is correct or not?IS there any better alternate solution than this solution.

Thanks & Regards,

Sameer Deshmukh.

[tbrammer]

If changing the font solved the problem than it is obviously the right solution.

It seems that the font you used before was missing certian characters like french accents.

Which font did you use before?

[Anonymous]

@tbrammer,Thanks for your reply however,

Yes you are correct fonts we used before was missing certian characters like french accents.  

I cant just change the style for all fonts to romanc.shx  as I come to know changing font name to romanc.shx displays french characters correctly however it disturbs the allignment(eg. template attributes overlaps) and it will take lot of manual work to do that allignment.

Fonts we used are HELV.SHX,FREEHAND.SHX,ISAltype.shx,MONOTXT.SHX,NEWTXT.SHX,RJS.SHX,RJSTXT.SHX,SEQ.SHX,TXT.SHX and SIMPLEX.SHX.

Changing Font SIMPLEX.SHX to SIMPLEX8.SHX(which is present in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2015\Fonts) solves for SIMPLEX.SHX.

1. Do you have any idea what are modified SHX for HELV.SHX,FREEHAND.SHX,ISAltype.shx,MONOTXT.SHX,NEWTXT.SHX,RJS.SHX,RJSTXT.SHX,

SEQ.SHX,TXT.SHX? 

If 1 is not possible

2. How to give French support in SHP file of these SHXs?(I have converted SHX to SHP with dumpshx.exe utility available in AutoCAD 2015)

[tbrammer]

Sorry but I'm afraid I can't help you very much here.

I found this link . Maybe you find some SHX fonts there.

What about changing from SHX to TTF? I thinks it is much easier to find appropriate TTF fonts.