Modify Drawing Codepage Utility

This DOS utility will change the codepage of drawing files saved in a language other than the language the file was originally created in, allowing text to be displayed correctly.

Description of Problem

Drawing files created in AutoCAD^® versions older than 2004 and saved in a version of AutoCAD that uses a different language may not properly display text. For example, a drawing created in AutoCAD Japanese 2000 and reopened and saved in AutoCAD English 2002 may display text improperly when opening the saved drawing in AutoCAD Japanese 2000 or AutoCAD 2007.

Installation Instructions

To Install and Modify Drawing Codepage Utility

Download the self-extracting file Codepage Tool.exe to your local folder.
Double click the downloaded file and extract the resulting files to the default folder or the folder you have specified.
A license agreement (Utility License.rtf) is included as one of the extracted files.
You must read and accept the license agreement before using the utility. If you do not agree with the terms of the license agreement, then delete the utility.
Click Start > Run. Enter "cmd" in the Run dialog to open a Command Prompt window. Click OK.

Note: The Modify Drawing Codepage Utility can only be run from a Command Prompt window.
Change directories to the folder where the utility was extracted in Step 2.
Enter the following at the command prompt:
ModifyDWGCP.exe [folder or file name] [-c Codepage][-s][-h][-?] [<logfile_name.txt>]
Where:
- ModifyDWGCP.exe is the name of the Modify Drawing CodePage Utility executable file.
- Folder or File Name: ModifyDWGCP will search all AutoCAD drawings in the specified folder for codepage usage.
- -s: Searches all subfolders when a folder is supplied
- -h or -?: Displays the above command line usage
- -c Codepage: Switches to specify the codepages below
- logfile_name: If a log file name is provided, all search results will be written to a file with that name. If no log file is specified, all results are displayed in the command prompt window.
  
  Note: All of the above are optional with the exception of Folder or File Name and -c Codepage.

Available Codepage Selections

Thai	or	874
Japanese	or	932
SimpChinese	or	936
Korean	or	949
TradChinese	or	950
CentralEurope	or	1250
Cyrillic	or	1251
English	or	1252
Greek	or	1253
Turkish	or	1254
Hebrew	or	1255
Arabic	or	1256
Baltic	or	1257
Vietnam	or	1258

To run ModifyDWGCP.exe from a location other than the folder that it was installed in, do one of the following:

Append the name of the folder where the Modify Drawing Codepage Utility resides to the Windows Path environment variable, after which ModifyDWGCP.exe can be run from any folder.
or,
Preface the ModifyDWGCP command with the path of the install folder; for example, C:\<your folder>\ModifyDWGCP.

Examples:

ModifyDWGCP.exe g:\Zones\Project\Drawings\house.dwg -C 932

ModifyDWGCP.exe g:\Zones\Project\Drawings\house.dwg -C Japanese

Changes the codepage of the house.dwg drawing in the folder g:\Zones\Project\Drawings\ to Japanese.

ModifyDWGCP.exe g:\Zones\Project\Drawings\ -c 950 -s results.log

ModifyDWGCP.exe g:\Zones\Project\Drawings\ -c TradChinese -s results.log

Changes the codepage of all drawings in the folder g:\Zones\Project\Drawings\ and its subfolders to Traditional Chinese and writes the results to the log file called results.log.