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Problem with per mill character ‰ (DWG2TAB)

  • 21 February 2014
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The DWG file which I transform contains the per mill character .

 

In the generated TAB file this character is not present.

 

Even with the string Searcher I can not find it this character in the process.

 

Is it maybe possible to replace the character with ASCII or Unicode?

 

Or is the reason maybe the font used?

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Userlevel 4
Hi,

 

 

MapInfo files does not really support Unicode, so your best bet is probably to use a StringReplacer somewhere before the writer, so that you can replace it or alternatively remove it.

 

 

I recommend that you send a feature with the character in question to the Inspector, so that you can copy/paste the correct character into the StringReplacer.

 

 

David
Userlevel 2
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Hi,

 

 

To save "per mill" symbol character into the MapInfo file, I think that the only way is to set an encoding which can represent the symbol to Character Encoding parameter of the writer. e.g. cp932 (Japanese DOS/Windows).

 

If you need to save the symbol anyhow, it's worth to try. But unexpected side-effects could occur...

 

 

Takashi

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