AutoCAD LT supports the Unicode character-encoding standard. A Unicode font can contain 65,535 characters, with shapes for many languages. Unicode fonts contain many more characters than are defined in your system; therefore, to use a character not directly available from the keyboard, you can enter the escape sequence \U+nnnn, where nnnn represents the Unicode hexadecimal value for the character. All AutoCAD LT SHX shape fonts are now Unicode fonts.
The SHX fonts used in releases prior to AutoCAD LT for Windows 95 do not support the \U+nnnn sequence. However, you can continue to generate accented characters by using characters in the 128–256 range.
The text files for some alphabets, such as kanji, contain thousands of non-ASCII characters. To accommodate such text, AutoCAD LT supports a special type of shape definition known as a Big Font file. You can set a style to use both regular and Big Font files.
When you specify fonts, AutoCAD LT assumes that the first name is the normal font and the second (separated by a comma) is the Big Font. If you enter only one name, AutoCAD LT assumes it's the normal font and removes any associated Big Font. By using leading or trailing commas when specifying the font file names, you can change one font without affecting the other, as shown in the following table.
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Enter this... |
To specify this... |
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font,big font |
Both normal font and Big Font |
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font, |
Only a normal font (Big Font unchanged) |
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,big font |
Only a Big Font (normal font unchanged) |
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font |
Only a normal font (Big Font, if any, removed) |
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ENTER (null response) |
No change |
Note: AutoCAD LT does not accept long file names that contain commas as font file names. The comma is interpreted as a separator for an SHX font–Big Font pair.
See Also
Substituting Fonts