Text Encoding Conversion

Text Encoding Conversion

nanoCAD button – Utilities > Decode Text
Menu: File – Drawing Utilities > Decoder DWG…
Document tab context menu: Utilities > Decoder DWG
Command line: TEXTDECODER

Text and named objects (blocks, layers, text and dimension styles, line types) encoding conversion.
The utility helps fix the problems when texts and object names are replaced by garbled symbols, characters or hieroglyphs associated with incorrect recognition of the text code page.

The command opens the Text Decoder dialog box.

Options

Select Select from the list of drawing elements that contain named objects and texts. Named objects of the selected element are displayed in the section window.
Select all Select all named objects displayed in the section window. A random selection of objects for conversion can be made by using Ctrl and Shift keys.

Decoding

Source encoding Selection of supposed type of source encoding from the list.
Displayed as Selection of supposed type of target encoding from the list.

Decoding modes

Manually The mode of manual encoding selection.
Autodetect Automatic encoding selection.
Decode Start the decoding procedure.

Decoding output

Select all Select all decoding results displayed in the section window. A random selection of objects for encoding conversion can be made by using Ctrl and Shift keys.
Apply Apply all decoding results.
Apply to selected Apply the conversion results to selected elements.

Encoding conversion procedure

• Open the Selection list, select the named object or text that requires conversion.
• Select the necessary from the elements displayed in the section window or click Select all button to select all elements.
• Set the decoding mode:

Manually:

• Select the encoding type from the Source encoding list.
• Select the encoding type from the Displayed as list.

Autodetect – the source and target encodings are selected automatically. The corresponding lists will be disabled.

• Click Decode.

Applying the decoding results

The decoding results are displayed in the section window after the separating characters ─>.
If conversion is made in the Autodetect mode, the list of decoding options becomes available for the element selected in the box.

When using Manually mode, the desired result can be achieved by changing types of source and target encodings.
1. Select the elements with the correct decoding result in the section window.
2. Click Apply to selected button.
3. If all encoding conversion results are acceptable, click Select all button and Apply button.

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