Greek fonts displaying incorrectly in AutoCAD

If I take a file that uses Greek fonts & was created in AutoCAD 2002,
but open it in 2004, the writing shows up incorrectly as Roman
characters with accents on, or as a row of question marks.

I can create Greek text in 2004 fine though - it just doesn't show up on
files that were created in an earlier version.

Has anyone got any suggestions why this migt be happening - or of how to
fix the problem?

 

Check the settings for the Text Styles (STYLE command) in the drawings
created in 2002.
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Sorry no, I'm clueless. But that won't stop me... ;-)

Are you sure that you have the same font with exactly the same name?

 

Failed AutoCad's doping test!

 

Even if I run both versions of AutoCAD on the same machine the problem
occurs.

 

The problem was not originally on my machine, but that of a friend (in
Greece). I have just tried to replicate the problem on my own machine &
can't manage to get it to behave in the same way (at least how I
remember it behaving - as it was a few of weeks ago that I was in Greece).
I'm wondering now if it had anything to do with the fact that the
machine that the original drawings were created on was running Windows
98 & the one where the problem showed up was running XP. I know that
from 2000 onwards MS used Opentype fonts for foreign charactersets &
that this slightly altered the way that fonts were represented in the
system. (I don't exactly how this worked, but Win98 showed them as
separate fonts - Arial Greek, Arial Turkish etc, wheras Win2K just shows
a single font on the list - although in both cases AFAIK there is just a
single file for the font)

 

Are you sure that you have the same font with exactly the same name?

And they may be getting their fonts from .../acad2000/fonts and
..../acad2004/fonts. The appropriate greek font in the old drawings may be
"Greek" and in the new ACAD may be "__Greek".

Are you sure that you have the same font with exactly the same name?

 

system. (I don't exactly how this worked, but Win98 showed them as

Not Autocad fonts at all. Truetype fonts then. You may have hit the nail on
the head. If the drawings originated on a non-Unicode Greek specific OS, it
does seem likely that moving to US English 2k... I don't know HOW these
things are taken care of, but do suspect that you have hit the nail on the
head.

 

The font used in this instance was Arial, so it should always be picking
it from the Windows font folder, as it is not one of the ones in
AutoCAD's own folder AFAIK.

 

it seems greek to me !