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Save As problems with font

Question asked by Modestas Vaicekauskis on Aug 18, 2016
Latest reply on Apr 29, 2019 by Paulius Sprindys

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Haribol, Everyone,

I have problem with solidworks. When I have file name with Lithuanian characters, for example ęčėšįęų.SLDDRW And when I do normal save As PDF function form menu In the end I get PDF file name which looks like this: жилрбжш.PDF So some how, file name it's turned to Russian Cyrillic. But when I try save As DWG everything is ok, ęčėšįęų.DWG.

When I use Deepak Gupta macro it's the same situation. The pdf file name is wrong, and the dwg is ok.

The PDF Properties show this information. Title is the same like ęčėšįęų.SLDDRW , but the file name is change.

So any suggestions how to solve this bug? Have a nice day everyone

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Amen Allah Jlili Apr 29, 2019 3:19 AM

Apparenty the save pdf is not utf16 compatible? How about renaming that after you save?

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Modestas Vaicekauskis @ Amen Allah Jlili on Aug 19, 2016 4:33 AM

Renaming afterwards works fine. I can see all Lithuanian letters. About the UTF-16 I do not know a thing. So I am searching info about that.

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Amen Allah Jlili Aug 19, 2016 9:19 AM

UTF-16 means that characters are encoded in two bytes. That means there are 2^16 chars (which should encompass all languages). UTF-8, however, is one byte encoder means that they are 2^8 (256 chars). This is an awesome article by Joel Spolsky the founder of StackOverFlow, you should read it.

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Paulius Sprindys Apr 25, 2019 4:16 AM

Hello.

I have exact same issue with SW 2019 running on Windows 7 and with lithuanian fonts. It doesn't matter if i save drawing to pdf manually or with macro, SW changes symbols. Not to cyrilic, as in Modestas' case, but characters become different. Even more interesting, macro removes some of the lithuanian symbols, shown in macro variable, and saves to even another different name.

1st part of a macro generated name is drawing file name, 2nd part is description property from the model. Both are incorrect.

Maybe someone has any new ideas how to fix this ?

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Amen Allah Jlili Apr 29, 2019 3:21 AM

This issue remains unsolved to the best of my knowledge. I suggest you send API support an email (apisupport@solidworks.com) or consider renaming the file after you save it.

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Paulius Sprindys Apr 29, 2019 3:57 AM

Today i tested this on Windows 10 machine. Seems like this issue is gone, and my machine is running Win 7, maybe that's the solution - upgrading to Win10...

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Artem Taturevych @ Paulius Sprindys on Apr 29, 2019 4:45 AM

Check this setting in your Windows control panel:

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Paulius Sprindys @ Artem Taturevych on Apr 29, 2019 5:14 AM

Worked like a charm ! Changed System Locale to my country's and everything is fine now.

Thank you for pointing that out!! Have a nice day.

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Amen Allah Jlili Apr 29, 2019 3:19 AM
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Apparenty the save pdf is not utf16 compatible? How about renaming that after you save?
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- Modestas Vaicekauskis @ Amen Allah Jlili on Aug 19, 2016 4:33 AM
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  Renaming afterwards works fine. I can see all Lithuanian letters. About the UTF-16 I do not know a thing. So I am searching info about that.
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Amen Allah Jlili Aug 19, 2016 9:19 AM
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UTF-16 means that characters are encoded in two bytes. That means there are 2^16 chars (which should encompass all languages). UTF-8, however, is one byte encoder means that they are 2^8 (256 chars). This is an awesome article by Joel Spolsky the founder of StackOverFlow, you should read it.
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Paulius Sprindys Apr 25, 2019 4:16 AM
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Hello.
I have exact same issue with SW 2019 running on Windows 7 and with lithuanian fonts. It doesn't matter if i save drawing to pdf manually or with macro, SW changes symbols. Not to cyrilic, as in Modestas' case, but characters become different. Even more interesting, macro removes some of the lithuanian symbols, shown in macro variable, and saves to even another different name.

1st part of a macro generated name is drawing file name, 2nd part is description property from the model. Both are incorrect.

Maybe someone has any new ideas how to fix this ?
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Amen Allah Jlili Apr 29, 2019 3:21 AM
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This issue remains unsolved to the best of my knowledge. I suggest you send API support an email (apisupport@solidworks.com) or consider renaming the file after you save it.
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Paulius Sprindys Apr 29, 2019 3:57 AM
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Today i tested this on Windows 10 machine. Seems like this issue is gone, and my machine is running Win 7, maybe that's the solution - upgrading to Win10...
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- Artem Taturevych @ Paulius Sprindys on Apr 29, 2019 4:45 AM
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  Check this setting in your Windows control panel:
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  - Paulius Sprindys @ Artem Taturevych on Apr 29, 2019 5:14 AM
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    Worked like a charm ! Changed System Locale to my country's and everything is fine now.
    
    Thank you for pointing that out!! Have a nice day.
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