DXF File Encoding¶
DXF R2004 and prior¶
Drawing files of DXF R2004 (AC1018) and prior are saved as ASCII files with the encoding set by the header
variable $DWGCODEPAGE, which is ANSI_1252 by default if $DWGCODEPAGE is not set.
Characters used in the drawing which do not exist in the chosen ASCII encoding are encoded as unicode characters with
the schema \U+nnnn. see Unicode table
Known $DWGCODEPAGE encodings¶
DXF |
Python |
Name |
|---|---|---|
ANSI_874 |
cp874 |
Thai |
ANSI_932 |
cp932 |
Japanese |
ANSI_936 |
gbk |
UnifiedChinese |
ANSI_949 |
cp949 |
Korean |
ANSI_950 |
cp950 |
TradChinese |
ANSI_1250 |
cp1250 |
CentralEurope |
ANSI_1251 |
cp1251 |
Cyrillic |
ANSI_1252 |
cp1252 |
WesternEurope |
ANSI_1253 |
cp1253 |
Greek |
ANSI_1254 |
cp1254 |
Turkish |
ANSI_1255 |
cp1255 |
Hebrew |
ANSI_1256 |
cp1256 |
Arabic |
ANSI_1257 |
cp1257 |
Baltic |
ANSI_1258 |
cp1258 |
Vietnam |
DXF R2007 and later¶
Starting with DXF R2007 (AC1021) the drawing file is UTF-8 encoded, the header variable $DWGCODEPAGE is still in use, but I don’t know, if the setting still has any meaning.
Encoding characters in the unicode schema \U+nnnn is still functional.
See also