When Japanese text in a DXF is garbled

Whether Japanese text in a DXF can be read depends on the DXF version and the text encoding. In JWW Bridge, you choose them with Recipient in the Export sheet.

Garbled text in Jw_cad

• Choose Jw_cad Users when exporting. It writes Japanese text in Shift-JIS.
• DXF files exported with AutoCAD and Others (UTF-8) can’t be read correctly by older versions of Jw_cad, such as 8.25a.
• Jw_cad 8.25a can’t open a file whose file or folder name contains characters that are not in Shift-JIS, such as Simplified Chinese. Use Japanese or plain ASCII names.

“?” in AutoCAD

DXF files exported with AutoCAD and Others set the text font to MS Gothic. Characters that this font lacks, such as Korean, may appear as “?” in AutoCAD, although the text itself is stored correctly. Change the font of the text style in AutoCAD.

Still garbled?

Contact us from the Support page and tell us the software and version you used (for example, Jw_cad v10 or 8.25a).