Unicode Support

Support for enhanced Unicode character encoding was introduced in MAPublisher® version 7.3 to support the growing demand for MAPublisher overseas and particularly in areas when double-byte character sets are used.

MAPublisher 8.x supports Unicode to varying degrees depending upon the operation, operating system,platform, GIS file format and language so please refer to the information below to understand how MAPublisher 8.x Unicode support may affect your workflow.

MAPublisher 8.x supports Unicode character encoding in MAP Views, MAP Attributes, MAP Stylesheets, and MAP Selection Filters. MAPublisher 8.x can also reference Illustrator layers, graphic styles and character styles using Unicode encoding. If you are using a version of MAPublisher earlier than 7.3 you should avoid using Unicode character encoding in these items.

In order to use Unicode character encoding a Unicode-compliant font is required. Macintosh users will have Unicode compliant fonts installed with OS X. Windows users will require Unicode-compliant fonts to render Unicode. For more information on Unicode visit http://www.unicode.org

The following tables indicate Unicode support in MAPublisher 8.x for data formats that support Unicode. For each data format there are four areas where Unicode character encoding is can be used. Unicode support for importing and exporting data is different, so for each platform two tables have been created.

1. File Directory - when unicode encoding is used in the path to where the file is located
2. Filename - when unicode encoding is used in the filename
3. Attribute column name - when unicode encoding is used in a column name for attributes
4. Attribute value - when an attribute value contains unicode encoding

Windows
	Windows Unicode Support (Importing)					Windows Unicode Support (Exporting)
Data format	File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value		File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value
Delimited Text
CAD-DWG			Format has no attributes					Format has no attributes
CAD-DXF			Format has no attributes					Format has no attributes
ESRI Interchange
ESRI ARCINFO Generate			Format has no attributes					Format has no attributes
ESRI Shapefile
GML (Simple features)
MapInfo MIF/MID
MapInfo TAB
Microstation Design			Format has no attributes					Format has no attributes
KML
S-57			Format uses simple ASCII text for attribute names and most values
	Windows Unicode Support (Working with images)
	File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value
World file (.tfw)	†/‡	†/‡	†	†		†When using system encoding on Windows XP (for example, using the default Japanese encoding on Japanese Windows XP)
Image Report (.irp)	†/‡	†/‡	†	†
MapInfo TAB (.tab)	†/‡	†/‡	†	†		‡When using non-system encoding on Windows XP (for example, using Japanese encoding on English Windows XP)
ListGeo (.lgo)	†/‡	†/‡	†	†
GeoTIFF (.tif)	†/‡	†/‡	†	†

Mac OS X
	Mac OS X Unicode Support (Importing)					Mac OS X Unicode Support (Exporting)
Data format	File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value		File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value
Delimited Text
CAD-DWG			Format has no attributes					Format has no attributes
CAD-DXF			Format has no attributes					Format has no attributes
ESRI Interchange
ESRI ARCINFO Generate			Format has no attributes			Format has no attributes
ESRI Shapefile
GML (Simple features)
MapInfo MIF/MID
MapInfo TAB
Microstation Design			Format has no attributes					Format has no attributes
KML
S-57			Format uses simple ASCII text for attribute names and most values
	Mac OS X Unicode Support (Working with images)
	File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value
World file (.tfw)	†	†	†	†		†Limited support (not all combinations of Unicode supported)
Image Report (.irp)	†	†	†	†
MapInfo TAB (.tab)	†	†	†	†
ListGeo (.lgo)	†	†	†	†
GeoTIFF (.tif)	†	†	†	†