_hot_: Hztxt.shx

Never delete hztxt.shx . One day, an old drawing from 1999 will land on your desk, and only that humble stroke font will unlock its secrets. File checksum of a common version: Size: ~2,200,000 bytes (2.2 MB) Contains: ~6,763 Chinese characters (GB2312 Level 1) Design principle: 16x16 stroke grid, single-line, no fills.

You’ve seen the dialog box: "Specify font for HZTXT: " Or worse: The drawing loads, but all Chinese text is replaced with \U+FF1B codes or random Japanese-looking characters (because AutoCAD substituted bigfont.shx or chineset.shx incorrectly). hztxt.shx

To write notes, dimensions, or specifications in Chinese, a CAD user would see only gibberish: ╩╓╗·╩╘╤Θ . The software lacked the thousands of Chinese character glyphs required. Never delete hztxt