Non ASCII character

[M76]

Hi

 

The unfortunate case is that I have a bunch of drawing files that have text style names containing non ascii characters, but I cannot enter non ascii characters into the lisp file, because autocad only works with ansi character encoding.

 

How to get around this?

[dbroada]

I don't know but can you build the names using strcat and the (chr nnn) function?

[M76]

but chr only returns ascii characters

[dbroada]

oh well, I said I didn't know.

[pBe]

Hi

 

The unfortunate case is that I have a bunch of drawing files that have text style names containing non ascii characters, but I cannot enter non ascii characters into the lisp file, because autocad only works with ansi character encoding.

 

How to get around this?

 

Not suer i understand your question. can you elaborate. or a sample syntax would be helpful

[David Bethel]

AFAIK, All characters ( on PC based machines ) have either hex (00-FF), decimal (0-255) or chr values. 0-127 were considered as standard ASCII, 128-255 as extended. Autolisp can use %nnn ( decimal ) in a ( strcat ) call to access all 256 characters. Maybe this can help. -David

[M76]

Well those are the standard ascii characters, but some languages have letters that are not included in the standard ascii table, thus have a different code page. It always was a compatiblity problem.

 

Anyway the best I could do is select a text in the drawing that has the style in question and read the style name directly from there.