AutoCAD 2008 User's
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Use Text Fonts for International Work
Several factors affect your choosing, entering, and displaying international text in a drawing.
The program supports the Unicode character-encoding standard. An SHX font encoded using the Unicode standard font can contain many more characters than are defined in your system; therefore, to use a character not directly available from the keyboard, you can enter the escape sequence \U+nnnn, where nnnn represents the Unicode hexadecimal value for the character.
Beginning with AutoCAD 2007, all SHX shape fonts are encoded with the Unicode standard with the exception of Big Fonts. When choosing a text font for international work, you can use either a TrueType Font or a Big Font.
Asian alphabets contain thousands of non-ASCII characters. To support such text, the program provides a special type of shape definition known as a Big Font file. You can set a style to use both regular and Big Font files.
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Asian Language Big Fonts Included in the Product |
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Font File Name |
Description |
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@extfont2.shx |
Japanese vertical font (a few characters are rotated to work correctly in vertical text) |
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bigfont.shx |
Japanese font, subset of characters |
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chineset.shx |
Traditional Chinese font |
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extfont.shx |
Japanese extended font, level 1 |
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extfont2.shx |
Japanese extended font, level 2 |
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gbcbig.shx |
Simplified Chinese font |
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whgdtxt.shx |
Korean font |
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whgtxt.shx |
Korean font |
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whtgtxt.shx |
Korean font |
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whtmtxt.shx |
Korean font |
When you specify fonts using -STYLE, the assumption is that the first name is the normal font and the second (separated by a comma) is the Big Font. If you enter only one name, it's assumed that it is the normal font and any associated Big Font is removed. By using leading or trailing commas when specifying the font file names, you can change one font without affecting the other, as shown in the following table.
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Specifying fonts and Big Fonts on the Command Line |
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Enter this ... |
To specify this ... |
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[font name],[big font name] |
Both normal fonts and Big Fonts |
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[font name], |
Only a normal font (Big Font unchanged) |
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,[big font name] |
Only a Big Font (normal font unchanged) |
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[font name] |
Only a normal font (Big Font, if any, removed) |
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ENTER (null response) |
No change |
