High ASCII characters changing after restart

[marek.jansa]

Dear Andrew,

I have this issue with the Eastern Europe characters encoding in QCad. Can you help me solving it, please?

I describe my drawings in Czech. We use Latin-2 / Windows-1250 / ISO-8859-2 ASCII table.
When I enter high ASCII characters save the drawing and restart QCad, the characters are then shown in their Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) representation.

An example:
I write ŘEZ BOČNÍ.
Č and Ř are typical Czech characters.
They do not exist in the Latin-1 ASCII table.
In the Latin-2 ASCII table, their position is:
"Č" - HEX C8 (Unicode point = 010C)
"Ř" - HEX D8 (Unicode point = 0158)

When I reopen the drawing, my text "ŘEZ BOČNÍ" is replaced with "ØEZ BOÈNÍ".
In Latin-1 ASCII table:

È - HEX C8 (Unicode point = 00C8)
Ø - HEX D8 (Unicode point = 00D8)

You can see that the ASCII HEX points are the same, Unicode points are obviously different.
What can I do to save my text in drawings in Unicode or to keep QCad from switching to Latin-1, please?

I use:
QCad Professional 3.26.2.0 (3.26.2), 64-bit
Windows 10 64-bit
R27 DXF format

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1

[andrew]

Please attach your drawing file, so we check if the problem still exists in 3.26.3, thanks.

[btjacker]

Facing the same issue with Czech " ěř " chars, dxf can by found in this post
Tried on WIndows 8, Windows 10 qcad-3.26.3-pro-win64-installer.msi

Currently working with qcad-3.22.0.5-pro-win64-installer.msi which is OK.

[andrew]

This should be fixed in QCAD 3.26.4 which is now available from your download link.

[marek.jansa]

Dear Andrew,

sorry for a late reply, I did not receive notifications for this thread (I thought I would be automatically subscribed since I created it).
Yes! It really is fixed, you're great - thank you for reacting this fast. I love QCad!

Marek