Problem

Copy + paste foreign characters
Text, consisting foreign characters (e.g. cyrillic, chinese, czech), is
copied from an Excel file
and directly pasted into a MicroStation .dgn file.
The pasted text is displayed as question marks.

Solution

Use MS Text editor as clipboard

Set the regional and language options:
1. Windows Start menu, Settings, Control panel
2. Open the Regional and Language Options tool
3. Select the Advanced tab
4. In the Code page conversion table the specific code must be enabled
(e.g. code 10007 for MAC-Cyrillic)
5. Save your settings with Apply

Place the text:
1. Copy the foreign text from the Excel file
2. Open the Place text tool (Text toolbox)
3. Paste the foreign text into the text editor
4. Place the text in the .dgn file. The text is displayed in foreign characters
 

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