topic Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the in Modeling

Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the Dimension Text

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 12:25:13 GMT

After I tried various encoding settings in the "Dimension Text Setting" Windows, it is so frustrating that any special character(such as ø) could not be displayed in the Dimension Text". (Figure 1)

More than that, any special character could not be displayed in the setting window! (Figure 2 & Figure 3)

The special character is correct in the Text. (Figure 4)

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:23:24 GMT

Figure 2

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:24:00 GMT

Figure 3

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:24:33 GMT

Figure 4

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:45:04 GMT

The User Interface in ArchiCAD did not support UNICODE yet.

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:37:36 GMT

I tried to change the region and language in the Control Panel. However it doesn't work. I wonder what is the proper window environment?

andro55 wrote:
The User Interface in ArchiCAD did not support UNICODE yet.

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

JaredBanks — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:09:23 GMT

You should be able to create the special character in a text window, then copy and paste it into the dimension text dialog box after you change it to custom. That works for me.

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:10:10 GMT

Thank you for your reply! But this way does not work!

JaredBanks wrote:
You should be able to create the special character in a text window, then copy and paste it into the dimension text dialog box after you change it to custom. That works for me.

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

JaredBanks — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:05:13 GMT

Huh, I guess we never could do that. I've only ever used the +/- symbol and that works. Never realized others didn't.

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

Stress Co_ — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:16:39 GMT

Not that it will help, but it works on a Mac.
"Option o" for the diameter symbol.

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

alemanda — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:36:22 GMT

ALT+0216
For me it works.

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

JaredBanks — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:32:52 GMT

Marc,

That totally DOES help! option+all sorts of other crazy keys works.

Just a sample of what I could get to work in the dimension tool (pretty much random key strokes on my part):
ø¨´®πøƒ∆…¬µå,mnv≤µ˙∫˚∆∫¡ø™ºª∆∆˚¬∂˚¬ƒ˚¬ß∂µµ˚ß∂˚ç

Thanks for setting us straight.

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

Stress Co_ — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:32:08 GMT

FYI:
So you don't have to use trial and error to find the symbols ....
On a Mac, you can turn on "keyboard viewer" to get a graphic representation of your keyboard and SEE how modifier keys change the characters.

To see "keyboard viewer". Open "Keyboard" in System Preferences.
Show the viewer in the menubar
Click Menubar Icon and "Show keyboard viewer".

I leave the icon in my menubar.

Re: Unable to Insert Special Character "ø" in the

rocorona — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:53:36 GMT

I think the problem reported by Kent Xiao can reside in the Chinese OS... that nobody of the repliers has...