FS#1296Missing Codetable setting
- Type
- Bug
- Status
- Closed
- Resolution
- Not a bug
- Category
- QCAD (main)
- Severity
- Low
- Priority
- Low
- Reported version
- 3.11.3
- Operating system
- All
- Reported
- 2015-11-16 by Harms
- Closed
- 2015-11-16 by andrew
In the application / drawing text-settings, I find some fonts that should not be defined as font at all.
ISO 9985-11 is the THAI codetable (byte). (The once original drawing character drawing-specs in the sixties was ISO 9985)
UNICODE is the new third party 16 bit character codetable, (and has to be UTF8 recoded to fit in a normal computer).
A font does not equals a codetable and there names should not be mixed up.
In top of the font-settings a field 'Codetable:' should be added with the choice between 'ISO9985-1 (Latin1)' or 'Unicode',
where ISO9985-1 (Latin1) refers to the US(Extended)ASCII-set.
Keep in mind some QCAD-edited drawings should and ought to be downward-dxf-compatible with older (ASCII)-versions and software.
Comments (1)
These font names are still supported for historical reasons. You can remove those fonts from your system by deleting the appropriate files in the fonts directory of your QCAD installation.
QCAD only supports UTF-8 encoding for DXF/DWG files it writes. This is a known and deliberate limitation of QCAD.
Codecs in imported files are respected and converted to UTF-8 as far as possible.