Unicode Support

MAPublisher supports Unicode character encoding in MAP Views, MAP Attributes, MAP Themes, and MAP Selections. MAPublisher can also reference Adobe Illustrator layers, graphic styles, and character styles using Unicode encoding.  

To use Unicode character encoding you require a Unicode compliant font. Mac 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 display Unicode—UTF8 support in MAPublisher, for GIS data formats that are Unicode—UTF8 compliant. Unicode support for importing and exporting data is different, so for each platform two tables have been created. For each data format there are four areas where Unicode character encoding can be used:

• File Directory - when Unicode encoding is used in the path to where the file is located.
• Filename - when Unicode encoding is used in the filename.
• Attribute column name - when Unicode encoding is used in a column name for attributes.
• Attribute value - when an attribute value contains Unicode encoding.

Windows Unicode Support

		Import				Export
Data Format	Notes	File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value	File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value
Adobe Geospatial PDF
AutoCAD Drawing/Exchange				Format has no attributes				Format has no attributes
Delimited XY Text
Digital Line Graph						N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Esri ArcInfo Generate				Format has no attributes				Format has no attributes
Esri Interchange File
Esri Shapefile
FME Feature Store						N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Geography Markup Language	UTF-8 only
GeoJSON/TopoJSON	UTF-8 only
GeoPackage	UTF-8 only
Google Earth KML/KMZ	UTF-8 only
GPS Exchange Format	UTF-8 only
International Hydrographic Office S-57				Format uses simple ASCII text for attribute names and most values		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MapInfo MIF/MID
MapInfo TAB
Microsoft Excel	UTF-16 only
MicroStation Design	UTF-8 only			Format has no attributes				Format has no attributes
OpenStreetMap	UTF-8 only
Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)						N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
TIGER/Line	UTF-8 only					N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Database (Import)

Data Format	File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value
Basic File Geodatabase
Personal File Geodatabase
PostGIS Spatial Database

Online (Import)

Data Format	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value
ArcGIS Online/ArcGIS Web Service1
Web Feature Service (UTF-8 only)
Web Map Service

Images

Format	Extension	File Directory1,2	Filename1,2	Attribute Column Name1	Attribute Value1
World File	*.tfw
Image Report	*.irp
MapInfo TAB	*.tab
ListGeo	*.lgo
GeoTIFF	*tif

1 When using system encoding on Windows (for example, using the default Japanese encoding on Japanese Windows)
2 When using non-system encoding on Windows (for example, using Japanese encoding on English Windows)

Mac Unicode Support 

		Import				Export
Data Format	Notes	File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value	File Directory	Filename	Attribute Column Name	Attribute Value
Adobe Geospatial PDF
AutoCAD Drawing/Exchange				Format has no attributes				Format has no attributes
Delimited XY Text
Digital Line Graph						N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Esri ArcInfo Generate				Format has no attributes				Format has no attributes
Esri Interchange File
Esri Shapefile
Geography Markup Language	UTF-8 only
GeoJSON	UTF-8 only
GeoPackage	UTF-8 only
Google Earth KML/KMZ	UTF-8 only
GPS Exchange Format	UTF-8 only
International Hydrographic Office S-57				Format uses simple ASCII text for attribute names and most values		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MapInfo MIF/MID
MapInfo TAB
Microsoft Excel	UTF-16 only
MicroStation Design	UTF-8 only			Format has no attributes				Format has no attributes
OpenStreetMap	UTF-8 only
Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)						N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
TIGER/Line	UTF-8 only					N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A