Chinese fonts not showing

Hi Duncan,

Did you review this thread https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/70297/how-to-show-chinese-text-fonts?

also the wiki article https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/8928/using-chinese-fonts-in-microstation

Regards

Maria

Hi Maria

Managed to get it working with the help of Andrew Bell.

Duncan

Thanks for let me know. was the information provided in the wiki different from the solution recommended by Andrew?

It could be nice to know if the information was still correct for future references.

This was the advice.

Recomm. Solution
09.08.2018          19:59:22            ABELL

I have had some discussions with my colleagues in Asia who have advised that for these Chinese characters to display correctly there are 3 options that would need to be looked at.

1. In the 'mslocale.cfg' file if you could remove the '#' at the beginning of this line it will make it active in MicroStation.

# MS_RTCONFIG = SimpChinese

This file is located in the following folder in CONNECT Edition.

C:\Program Files\Bentley\MicroStation CONNECT Edition\MicroStation\config\system\

2. Go to the > Control Panel >  Region > Administrative tab and click on Change System Locale icon to change the current language for non-Unicode programs to Chinese (Simplified, China). Click on OK to restart PC to save settings.

3. They noticed that some of the Chinese characters still displaying question marks are using the text style 'TBHZ'. When they opened this in the Text Style dialog they noticed that under the Advanced Tab the Shx Big Font was blank. If they also changed this to use the 'hzdx' font the text would also change to use Chinese characters. I am thinking that this, and other, Text Styles are using another Chinese SHX font that you did not supply to me so may display correctly.

This was the advice.

Recomm. Solution
09.08.2018          19:59:22            ABELL

I have had some discussions with my colleagues in Asia who have advised that for these Chinese characters to display correctly there are 3 options that would need to be looked at.

1. In the 'mslocale.cfg' file if you could remove the '#' at the beginning of this line it will make it active in MicroStation.

# MS_RTCONFIG = SimpChinese

This file is located in the following folder in CONNECT Edition.

C:\Program Files\Bentley\MicroStation CONNECT Edition\MicroStation\config\system\

2. Go to the > Control Panel >  Region > Administrative tab and click on Change System Locale icon to change the current language for non-Unicode programs to Chinese (Simplified, China). Click on OK to restart PC to save settings.

3. They noticed that some of the Chinese characters still displaying question marks are using the text style 'TBHZ'. When they opened this in the Text Style dialog they noticed that under the Advanced Tab the Shx Big Font was blank. If they also changed this to use the 'hzdx' font the text would also change to use Chinese characters. I am thinking that this, and other, Text Styles are using another Chinese SHX font that you did not supply to me so may display correctly.