gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

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gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

Post by thomas0316 » Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:23 am

When I open a dwg file from autocad format with "traditional chinese" txt. It shows gibberish.
How to do then I can get the correct content.
I attached a picture, help some can help me.

gibberish is like this:

¹Ï¸¹: T20
§÷®Æ: 6061-T5
³B²z: ¶§·¥­ì¦â
¼Æ¶q: 1 pcs
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Re: gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

Post by Husky » Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:54 am

Would this be considered as a correct displayed text?

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Re: gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

Post by andrew » Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:57 am

Seems to load fine here:
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Re: gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

Post by petevick » Wed Jun 02, 2021 4:03 pm

The text in the drawing uses a font called Standard, I guess that if you don't have that font available to Qcad you'll get gibberish
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Re: gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

Post by thomas0316 » Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:13 am

Husky wrote:
Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:54 am
Would this be considered as a correct displayed text?


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Yes, this is a correct displayed text.
But, how to do this?

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Re: gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

Post by andrew » Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:16 am

thomas0316:
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Re: gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

Post by thomas0316 » Mon Jun 07, 2021 9:10 am

andrew wrote:
Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:57 am
Seems to load fine here:
Screenshot 2021-06-02 at 07.59.18.png

For all support requests, please:
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Please be as specific as possible in describing your problem, so we can help you efficiently, thanks.
Dear Andrew,

OS: Windows 10
QCAD Professional Trial
Version: 3.26.1.0 (3.26.1)
Internet: QCAD.org
Build Date: Mar 8 2021
Revision: eec8166
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Architecture:x86_64
Compiler: MSVC++ 14.0 (2015)

I use the trial version, if this problem be solved, i will use qcad pro version.

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Re: gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

Post by andrew » Mon Jun 07, 2021 9:21 am

Please update to QCAD 3.26.4.

Please make sure you have the drawing font(s) installed used by your drawing, for example PMingLiU which is available from:
https://www.wfonts.com/font/pmingliu

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Re: gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

Post by thomas0316 » Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:50 pm

I solved previous file. But, I met the same issue with new file. Please help me to solve, thanks in advance.

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Build Date: Jun 4 2021
Revision: 0bb4334
Qt Version: 5.13.2
Architecture: x86_64
Compiler: MSVC++ 14.0 (2015)
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Re: gibberish, Garbled, when open a cad dwg file, can't show correcrt "Traditional Chinese" in TXT.

Post by andrew » Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:56 pm

The solution is the same: substitute fonts with a limited range of glyphs with a font that contains these glyphs.

For this file, substitute "romand" with for example "Arial Unicode MS" or another Unicode font.

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