ASCII codes for Fonts names?

[stephan.villeneuve]

Hello with all.

I know that you do not have accents in your English texts but in French we have such of them: É, é, à, ô...

One of our users works with a drawing coming from an external firm and there is one Font name "ARCHIQUIK.shx", do you know a place and/or a way of knowing the ASCII codes being able to create accents for this Font (possibly Autodesk) or very other?

I know that these codes are different according to Fonts.

As always, thank you in advance.

Bye!

[Maverick91]

Hello with all.

I know that you do not have accents in your English texts but in French we have such of them: É, é, à, ô...

One of our users works with a drawing coming from an external firm and there is one Font name "ARCHIQUIK.shx", do you know a place and/or a way of knowing the ASCII codes being able to create accents for this Font (possibly Autodesk) or very other?

I know that these codes are different according to Fonts.

As always, thank you in advance.

Bye!
Can you request that the outside source use ETRANSMIT to send the drawings?

BTW: as a rule, I make sure that dwg's from outside are clean before I put them on my harddrive. PURGE and AUDIT, early and often.

[stephan.villeneuve]

See the drawing with "ARCHQUIK.shx" active, I wrote an error in my original question (ARCHIQUIK.shx).

I use in Windows not an English keyboard configuration but "Français (Canada)".

If I type "É" in Autocad with this Font, I see "?" or others.

Thanks...

[paddymackey]

You could also use the dos codepage to input the caracters with accents. These should be universal whatever language you're typing in. Just hold down the left ALT key and type in the number using the keypad.

Ü = Alt + 129
é = Alt + 130
â = Alt + 131
ä = Alt + 132
à = Alt + 133
å = Alt + 134
ç = Alt + 135
ê = Alt + 136
ë = Alt + 137
è = Alt + 138
ï = Alt + 139
î = Alt + 140
ì = Alt + 141
Ä = Alt + 142
Å = Alt + 143
É = Alt + 144
ô = Alt + 147
ö = Alt + 148
ò = Alt + 149
û = Alt + 150
ù = Alt + 151
ÿ = Alt + 152
Ö = Alt + 153
Ü = Alt + 154
á = Alt + 160
í = Alt + 161
ó = Alt + 162
ú = Alt + 163
ñ = Alt + 164
Ñ = Alt + 165

[Ed Jobe]

That may work for ttf fonts, but I think his problem is that the particular font he is using doesn't have those characters defined for those keystrokes, especially if its an older shx font. That font is not supplied by Autodesk, so you would have to get the vendor that made it to update it (not very likely). There are ways to edit the font though...if you wanted to edit it yourself. Do you need that particular font in order to be compatible with your contractors? If so, they should switch to a font that you both can use. Or do you just like it and want to use it for your own use? If this is the case, there are other arch fonts that are more complete.

[paddymackey]

Those codes actually have nothing to do with Autodesk, they've been in use since the good ol' Dos days. They'll work with any fonts (at least all the ones I've ever used) regardless of wether they're TrueType or SHX

[stephan.villeneuve]

Thanks a lot team...

At next time!

[Ed Jobe]

Perhaps I should have said "That will work for ttf fonts but may not work for shx fonts". Most ttf fonts usually have a fairly full set of characters defined, but, in my experience, many shx fonts are fairly limited to what they think CAD users might need. Adesk modified the ones they ship a couple of years ago to more completely parallel their ttf counterparts, but the font he is inquiring about is an older non-adesk font and likely, just doesn't have any characters defined for those key combinations.

PS, Windows XP does not use a "DOS codepage", it is all unicode.