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 Big Font SHX Files
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.
Asian Language Big Fonts
Included in the Product
|
Font File Name
|
Description
|
@extfont2.shx
|
Japanese vertical font
(a few characters are rotated to work correctly in vertical text)
|
bigfont.shx
|
Japanese font, subset
of characters
|
chineset.shx
|
Traditional Chinese font
|
extfont.shx
|
Japanese extended font,
level 1
|
extfont2.shx
|
Japanese extended font,
level 2
|
gbcbig.shx
|
Simplified Chinese font
|
whgdtxt.shx
|
Korean font
|
whgtxt.shx
|
Korean font
|
whtgtxt.shx
|
Korean font
|
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.
Specifying fonts and Big Fonts at the Command
prompt
|
Enter this ...
|
To specify this ...
|
[font name],[big font name]
|
Both normal fonts and Big Fonts
|
[font name],
|
Only a normal font (Big Font unchanged)
|
,[big font name]
|
Only a Big Font (normal font unchanged)
|
[font name]
|
Only a normal font (Big Font, if any, removed)
|
ENTER (null response)
|
No change
|
Note Long file names
that contain commas as font file names are not accepted. The comma
is interpreted as a separator for an SHX font-Big Font pair.
To assign an Asian-language
SHX font to a text style
-
- In the Text Style dialog box, under Style
Name, click New.
- In the New Text Style dialog box, enter
a style name for the new text style. Click OK.
- Under Font Name, select the name of an
SHX font file, and then select Use Big Font to select an Asian-language
big font.
When you select Use Big
Font, the Font Style box changes to a Big Font Name box. Only SHX
fonts are available for selection, and only Big Font names are shown
in the Big Font box.
- To see the effects on different characters,
enter a text string in the sample text box that is located to the
left of the Preview button. Click Preview.
- To update text of the current style in
the drawing, click Apply.
- Click Close.
CommandsSTYLE
Creates, modifies, or
specifies text styles.
