The supported scripts include, but are not limited to, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Devanagari, Thai, Han, Hangul, Hiragana, and Katakana. Unicode supports numerous scripts used by languages around the world, and also a large number of technical symbols and special characters used in publishing. Conversion of data among these encodings is lossless. Defines multiple encodings of its single character set: UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32.Defines cross-mappings to other standards.Provides a standard algorithm for bidirectional text.Allows any combination of characters, drawn from any combination of scripts and languages, to co-exist in a single document.By using Unicode to represent character and string data in your applications, you can enable universal data exchange capabilities for global marketing, using a single binary file for every possible character code.
For a detailed description of all aspects of Unicode, refer to The Unicode Standard.Ĭompared to older mechanisms for handling character and string data, Unicode simplifies software localization and improves multilingual text processing. The system uses Unicode exclusively for character and string manipulation. Same as i did here for the degree sign : 45° or greek characters Ψ Ω.Unicode is a worldwide character-encoding standard. )Īn old trick is to use the Character Map tool in windows, copy the character from there into NX note editor.
There are limitations as well when using these fonts. Last week i learnt that, that font does not contain an italic version, you can not set that font italic in NX.
( When You install NX, the install will set Arial Unicode MS the default font because it supports more international characters than the Arial. In the NX Preferences - Drafting, the Unigraphics fonts are preceeded by a NX icon and the standard fonts are preceeded by an "A". If your keyboard has that character, press it.īut, if you still use the "Unigraphics fonts", the available characters are more limited. When using "standard fonts" such as Arial, there should not be any question regarding characters like the Ü. ( i have not looked.) Try the Latin-Extended if you still on "Unigraphics Fonts". I doubt that the immortal "blockfont" does contain these characters.
It also matches the ISO standard in appearance. We have been using the "Latin-Extended" font since that was included, it contains most European characters such as the åäö and the ü. Somebody in Germany created a few font's that did include international characters, and these fonts was then included in the distribution. ( Single line, linear segments, no true curves. These fonts are also good for simple engravings but maybe not that elegant. The Unigraphics type fonts where defined to be plotted by pen plotters, which is why they appear as they do. That change opened up for fonts which supported international characters, BUT, UGS at the time did not include these in the supplied "Unigraphics type" fonts.
NX left the 7 bit ASCII definition (which for younger listeners means "American Standard Code for Information Interchange", which in turn ONLY supports 128 characters.) somewhere during the mid 90-ies and implemented support for a 32 bit definition. That is, you could choose whether you would like to use the old "Unigraphics" fonts or the "standard fonts". NX 8.0 implemented support for "standard fonts" such as "Arial". I think you are jumping the trigger here, even if i do agree that NX was very late implementing support for "standard fonts".