Hi Adam and Alexei

To edit these authority files I am using Excel 2010 on a PC (Vista) and Excel 
2013 on a PC (Windows 7) and saving as a comma delimited file. I added in 5 
names that use all sorts of diacriticals and see that when I open it in 
Notepad++, it is actually encoded in Ansi not UTF-8.  Obviously I am choosing 
the wrong save format from Excel. Which should I be using? 


 I have attached the file  the file here so you can see it and play with it 
yourselves.  The tilda becomes a '?'. Actually the circumflex works, which is 
strange because when I got the error before, only the name with the circumflex 
was left as I had already changed the names with a tilda. 
Converting to UTF-8 doesn't help with the tilda problem. 

Thank you for looking into this. 
Lucy

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alexei Peters 
  To: Lucy FJ 
  Cc: Arches Project 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 8:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [Arches] Diacriticals in authority and .Arches files problems


  Hi Lucy,
  The .arches file should support diacritics.  I'm actually surprised that the 
authority files don't.  I just tested a local file and I was able to add these 
records:


  conceptid,PrefLabel,AltLabels,ParentConceptid,ConceptType,Provider 
  
20000001-0000-0000-0000-000000000000,Portland,,CITY_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv,Index,GCI
  20000002-0000-0000-0000-000000000000,San Francisco,The Bay 
Area,CITY_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv,Index,GCI
  20000003-0000-0000-0000-000000000000,San Jose,San 
José,CITY_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv,Index,GCI


  Notice that the alt label for San Jose, is San José


  Can you share the authority file that you're having trouble with?
  Cheers,
  Alexei




  Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173



  On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:32 AM, Lucy FJ <[email protected]> wrote:

    Hi all,
    We have been loading customised authority files and have noticed that 
Arches rejects words with diacriticals (accents etc). This is not a problem for 
us as we were happy to remove them  and if we really want them we can enter 
then through the RDM. But will this problem occur when loading resource data 
through .arches? We need to input place names as alternative names using 
diacriticals and it would be much easier if we can do this via .arches files. 
We know we can input them using the resource data manager but obviously when 
dealing with about 3000 entries,,this is time consuming.
    Any ideas?
    Lucy

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