CAD tip # 3934:

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Pasted russian text from MS Word displays in AutoCAD as question marks.

Cyrillic text should work fine in AutoCAD under standard circumstances. Make sure that you do this:

Install the russian language support for your Windows 2000/XP/Vista. Use a standard unicoded font (e.g. Times Roman TTF) containing cyrillic characters. Paste the text into the MText editor (not to DText entities).

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23.7.2004 13072×

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See also:
Tip 12562:	How to display cyrillic or special math symbols in a DCL dialog?
Tip 12069:	Unicode and DXF files.
Tip 11580:	Excel: convert Unicode texts to \U+ codes for AutoCAD
Tip 7520:	DWG to PDF problem in an arabic font.
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