Following along with heinsite's posting, see Autodesk user documentation for regarding the text symbols that are available in the following True Type (TTF) and SHX fonts.There seem to be several postings that talk about this issue:So apparently if your current Text Style is not using one of the fonts in the list, and you insert a symbol that is not supported by that font then AutoCAD will automatically switch over to the Isocpeur font which does support the symbol. So if you are wanting to use Romans which is on the list then perhaps you need to create a Text Style that uses Romans or set that style current before creating the MTEXT. No, it won't. All FONTALT does is set up a font on your system that will be used in the event you open a file that calls a font your system doesn't contain.Ex. Your FONTALT is set to Arial.
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Your system will display Arial for that text instead.Now, if some special character is called, if Arial doesn't have it, it still won't display. So if you want a special one, make sure your alternate font set includes it.Dave. John,As far as I can tell special symbols are related to the font you use. Many times a symbol may look alike in different fonts but they may have subtle differences. If there is a default font setting for symbols I'm not aware of it or how to change it, sorry.As an example, the attached file shows what happens to the Ohm symbol when inserted using different fonts for the text. I would infer from this that if you have a specific symbol style you like maybe the trick is to figure out first what that is and then create (and use) a text style for it whenever you need to insert it. Does that make sense?
Hope this helps.Dave. I'm having a similar issue. We want to move from Romans.shx to Arial.ttf for our standard font.That dang ISOCPEUR keeps coming in with the special symbols which are too small.Even going to the message thread listed above as the solution, I didn't really see the solution for me.We could almost use the RomansIV25, but it appears too light on the prints. Arial is pretty nice.Is there now a way to replace the ISOCPEUR with RomanSIV25 in the symbols?The font mapping file didn't do anything for me. From what I can discover, only the ISOCPEUR font holds all the special symbols in the MText drop down list of symbols, and it substitutes that font everytime the font / style being used lacks a glyph at that point. RomanS.xhx has most of them, but is missing at least the MonumentLine symbol. The TTF fonts supplied by Autodesk, Swiss & Dutch, are also missing the extra symbols.I don't think there's anything we as users can do about the substitution.
Except embrace ISOCPEUR - which is almost as ugly as txt.shx.
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