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I have a lot of old drawings which were made by Traditional Chinese
AutoCAD R12 for Dos and English AutoCAD R13 for Dos. All of them have
traditional chinese character.

When I want to open them in Traditional Chinese AutoCAD R14, the
traditional chinese character changes to some strange character / code.
How can I read the traditional chinese character properly.

I have used AutoCAD 2000 to open the old drawings, it seems ok. And I
try to save as R14 format and open it again. However, the bad result
still occurs.

Besides, the above problems, I have other problems in simplified chinese
character.

My clients in Mainland China use Simplified Chinese Windows and
Simplified AutoCAD R14 made a lot of drawing. All the drawings have
simplified chinese character. I can open their drawings and read the
simplified chinese character because I copy the simplified chinese fonts
of autocad from AutoCAD 2000.

Thus, my problem is how to let my clients to see my old drawing's text
in simplified chinese character because they don't know about / cannot
understand what is traditional chinese character.

I can read and write both traditional and simplified chinese character

I have tried to modify the text style and choose simplified chinese
fonts of both Windows and AutoCAD in R14 but the result fails. The
traditional chinese characters are changed to other chinese character,
i.e. meaning is not same as before and some strange code / character
appear.

I have tried to use RichWin to open AutoCAD R14 and use the GB code, not
Big 5 code but it is failure.

Thus, how can I covert my old drawings from traditional chinese to
simplified chinese character in AutoCAD R14 for my clients in Mainland
China?

And, how can I write / edit / add simplified chinese character in
Traditional Chinese Windows 98/98 and Traditional Chinese AutoCAD R14?


Regards,

John Chung