4 Replies Latest reply on May 19, 2016 6:15 PM by Scott Rypstra

Draftsight: How do I insert unicode symbols in text

William Putney Sep 29, 2015 2:18 PM

I see references to using Unicode in text in Draftsight, but can't figure out how to do it. For example, I know that '\U+2126' is the Unicode for the ohms symbol (omega), but how do I get that into a SimpleNote, Note, or dimension text to actually get the symbol?

Thanks for any help.

Re: Draftsight: How do I insert unicode symbols in text

Mike Pogue Sep 29, 2015 4:55 PM (in response to William Putney)

You're supposed to hold Alt and type in the Unicode. I'll be damned if I can get anything to turn into omega, though.
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  William Putney Sep 29, 2015 5:34 PM (in response to Mike Pogue)
  
  Mike - I know you use ASCII codes like that - in fact, ASCII codes work for me in DraftSight - for example, alt+0177 gives the +/- symbol (here it is using alt+0177: ±). But I'm thinking it's different for Unicodes, such as, for Unicodes in MS Word, you type the Unicode number, then simultaneously hit alt and 'x' - again, the example 2126 followed by alt+x in MS Word gives Omega.
  
  (Hmm - I did just find that ASCII 0937 does give omega in MS Word - but DraftSight doesn't recognize it - gives you a question mark, which I guess is what it puts for anything it doesn't recognize. Maybe it needs a certain characterset that DraftSight doesn't have.)
  
  I can get an omega in DraftSight using uppercase 'W' in the Symbol font, but the weight of the letter doesn't visually match with 'normal' letters - looks out of place. I was hoping to get a Unicode omega that blends in with the regular fonts.
  
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Re: Draftsight: How do I insert unicode symbols in text

William Putney Sep 29, 2015 5:47 PM (in response to William Putney)

Well, by playing around with it, I just found a suitable workaround - and that is to put the omega symbol into a MS Word document using Unicode 2126 (type 2126, then alt+x) - then copy and paste the resulting omega symbol into the line of text in DraftSight - and it blends in with the appearance of the other characters. That's adequate, but if anyone knows how to get Unicode symbols in general into DraftSight (I.e., without copy/pasting from another document), I would still like to know.
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Re: Draftsight: How do I insert unicode symbols in text

Scott Rypstra May 19, 2016 6:15 PM (in response to William Putney)

I know this is a really old post, but see also:
List of typed code for symbols like <mod-diam>
And I've found some of these work too:
Wingdings character set and equivalent Unicode characters ; (Unicode and multilingual support in HTML, fonts, Web browsers and other applications)
Basically it's error trial k error.
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