pepsi-cola Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 The callout tool does not support Icelandic characters such as ?, ? and ? while the text tool and every other tool that uses text seems to support it. Do you guys know if this is a bug or am I missing a setting somewhere? Quote Link to comment
pepsi-cola Posted March 24, 2009 Author Share Posted March 24, 2009 Well I just found out that the drawing label tool doesn't support foreign characters either Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 GoTo: ~User( that's you ):Library:Application Support:VectorWorks:2008:Settings:VectorWorks Preferences.xml Then open the file "VectorWorks Preferences.xml " in a text editor and check to see if the top lines are: "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>" Now do the same for SavedSettings.xml, and SavedSettingsUser.xml Quote Link to comment
pepsi-cola Posted March 24, 2009 Author Share Posted March 24, 2009 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?> yes, thats what is says. What does that mean? Quote Link to comment
pepsi-cola Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Do you have Quartz Imaging turned on in Vectorworks Preferences? I know that there was a problem with Hebrew in VW12 unless Quartz was on. Quote Link to comment
pepsi-cola Posted March 27, 2009 Author Share Posted March 27, 2009 Yes Pat, Quartz imaging is indeed turned on so that does not seem to be the issue. Quote Link to comment
pepsi-cola Posted March 29, 2009 Author Share Posted March 29, 2009 Are any of the VW developers monitoring the forum that might have any soloution to this? Quote Link to comment
_c_ Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 (edited) This is a known bug and they are working on it with high priority. Be patient. Can you point me to some VW element capable of displaying these special chars from Iceland ? (I love your language ) I am very interested and would be thankful to know. for you to fix this fast, escape all special chars in the xml files through the escape codes listed here: http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/entity-escape-characters.php It should work. orso Edited March 30, 2009 by _c_ Quote Link to comment
pepsi-cola Posted March 30, 2009 Author Share Posted March 30, 2009 (edited) Thanks for your response Orso. Actually it seems that only the text tool supports the special characters. What do I do, copy and paste the information from the link into the xml. files? Cheers Edited March 30, 2009 by pepsi-cola Quote Link to comment
_c_ Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 (edited) * Open the xml file in a text editor (TextWrangler or TextEdit) * Search each special character and substitute it through the escape For example: H?he = Höhe What do you mean the text tool? The text object insertion tool? Yes, I believe this is what you mean. Thank you. orso with the same problem in German Edited March 30, 2009 by _c_ Quote Link to comment
pepsi-cola Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 Hi sorry for the late reply, I finally got around to try what you are suggesting. I still don't get it. Am I supposed to find any of the special characters in the preferences.xml file and then replace those with the codes on the HTML escape character webpage? I don't find any of the spec. characters in the .xml file. I know nothing about programming and code so you really have to explain this to me like you would to a 5 year old Quote Link to comment
_c_ Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 (edited) 5 years old persons are fantastic. No less if they are grown up. The callout at first uses a default file which is residing in [VW folder]/Plug-Ins/Common/Data/Notes/Callouts.txt If you edit this file and do "Save us", it will create another xml file (not txt) whose location is listed in the "Notes Manager: Callout dialog". There all your databases are listed. You should open the dialog available with each callout and look where your file is. That is the file where you should edit the special characters. Please do so: * search for each character that is not contained in plain English * replace it through the code of that page. For example, for each ? you need to have ö In that site you'll find the right escape code for your special characters. orso Edited May 13, 2009 by _c_ Quote Link to comment
Hans-Olav Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Thats interesting, but a terribly time-consuming workaround. VW should support unicode text input in all levels. Not only in the text tool! Under Leopard with VW 12.5.3 and 2008, Icelandic special characters ???? fail in worksheets, layer and class names and all other places except in the text tool. One workaround is to install the old Classic Mac Roman key set from http://www.apple.is/islenska/ but this can affect other programs thats behaves well without localization. _________ Hans-Olav Reykjavik Iceland www.tst.is Quote Link to comment
_c_ Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Yes. Unicode is long due. The xml encoding system that I proposed will probably work only for characters whose encoding is within a certain range. Icelandic chars are too high in unicode indexing and won't do: they don't pass the dialogs. They don't pass VectorScript, creating the dialogs. If you create a text object on drawing you use the system, which supports your chars. You don't pass through a dialog cropping your string data to a MacRoman or ANSI set. The main problem is that the whole dialog system is still very limited. Either MacRoman or a weird mix of MacRoman-ANSI if you are on Win in EU countries, or whatever Windows uses outside plain ASCII environments. Just curious, how do a Windows machine display icelandic characters? Generally, not only VW? Do these characters fail? What is the encoding used by a Win user in Iceland? ANSI or something else? Just to make it clear: the xml parser in VW supports unicode, but, when it transfers strings of text to any dialog, any VectorScript, the unicode support is missing and the characters in the string will go rubbish. There is more into this issue and I am not so clear of the details of this transfer, which is patched in countless points by NNA. Still, there must be some Unicode extension available for our application, since VW is successfully used in Japan. That workaround for the callout will be nevertheless a help for european extended sets including diacriticals like in German, French, or Italian. I should test also for CE sets (central-european) which might fail as well. orso Quote Link to comment
starling75 Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 Hi. Do you know how to solve analogical problem with worksheets? here is my problem ... I am using central-european set (czech language) Thanks Quote Link to comment
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